RefNoMS/257/4/109
AltRefNoSa.1238
Previous numbersES4/1/1238
LevelItem
TitleCopy of a letter from Edward Sabine, Burlington House, London to [Edward James] Stone
Date11 September 1871
DescriptionSabine 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’.
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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