| Reference number | MS/257/4/511 |
| Alternative reference number | Sa.1650 |
| Previous numbers | ES4/24/1650 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Balfour Stewart, 7 Medina Villas, Richmond to [Edward Sabine] |
| Date | 31 May 1869 |
| Description | Stewart is ‘glad’ to hear [Sabine] likes their paper on pendulums. Stewart informs Sabine he thinks they are unable to ‘go on with Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes experiments at Kew’. Mr [Benjamin] Loewy now lives in London and is a private tutor. Stewart will send the absolute determinations and intends to follow Sabine’s ‘excellent system of magnetic reductions’. Asks Sabine for monthly declination disturbances. Mr [Charles] Meldrum informs there is to be another Meteorological Committee under [Edme Hippolyte] Marié-Davy. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA6042 | Stewart; Balfour (1828 - 1887) | 1828 - 1887 |
| NA8279 | Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883) | 1788 - 1883 |