| Reference number | MS/257/4/109 |
| Alternative reference number | Sa.1238 |
| Previous numbers | ES4/1/1238 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy of a letter from Edward Sabine, Burlington House, London to [Edward James] Stone |
| Date | 11 September 1871 |
| Description | Sabine was pleased to learn of Stone’s ‘official application to the Admiralty to be supplied with a set of self-recording magnetical instruments similar’ to the ones used at the Kew Observatory. Sabine has been in communication with the Kew Committee and is pleased to inform Stone that they are now waiting for the ‘authorisation of the Admiralty’ before the instruments will be made available. Sabine refers to improvements made to the instruments. Stone will receive a copy of results ‘obtained by a careful examination of the disturbances of the horizontal and vertical forces from 1858 to 1864 and the disturbances of the declination from 1858 to 1871’. Refers to ‘[Samuel Heinrich] Schwabe’s decennial period of the solar spots’. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8279 | Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883) | 1788 - 1883 |