Record

RefNoMS/257/4/511
AltRefNoSa.1650
Previous numbersES4/24/1650
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Balfour Stewart, 7 Medina Villas, Richmond to [Edward Sabine]
Date31 May 1869
DescriptionStewart 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.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6042Stewart; Balfour (1828 - 1887)1828 - 1887
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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