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Authorised form of nameSabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)
SurnameSabine
ForenamesEdward
Dates1788 - 1883
Dates and placesBirth:
Great Britain Street, Dublin, Ireland (14 October 1788)
Death:
Richmond, Surrey (26 June 1883)
Burial:
Family vault at Tewin, Hertfordshire
ActivityProfession:
Research Field:
Geophysics, terrestrial magnestism, astronomy
Education:
Entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1803); studied astronomy and terrestrial magnetism under Henry Browne (1816)
Career:
Naval officer; served in Canada; astronomer to expeditions to discover the North West Passage under Sir John Ross (1818) and under Sir William Edward Parry (1819-1820); scientific adviser to the Admiralty (1828); one of the instigators of the 'magnetic crusade' urging the British government to establish magnetic observatories throughout the empire to conduct a global magentic survey; established the Tornoto Observatory, the first scientific institution in Canada (1840); recognized that solar disturbances affected the Earth's magnetic environment; Colonel (by 1849); Major General (1856)
Honours:
KCB 1869
Memberships:
Athenaeum (Founder member 1824)
Royal Society activityMembership:
Fellow
Election Date:
16/04/1818
Medals/Prizes:
Copley Medal 1821; Royal Medal 1849
Lectures:
Bakerian 1821 and 1853
Council:
PRS 1861-1871; Treas 1850-1861; Sec 1827-1830; For Sec 1845-1850; VP 1839-1841, 1850-1856, 1871-1872
RelationshipsBrother-in-law of Henry Browne FRS (1797), younger brother of Joseph Sabine FRS (1799)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1892 vol 51 pp xliii-li
References:
G E Fogg, 'The Royal Society and the Antarctic' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 85-98
James Gabriel O'Hara, 'Gauss and the Royal Society: The Reception of His Ideas on Magnetism in Britain (1832-1842)' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 17-78
Charles H Cotter, 'The Royal Society and the Deviation of the Compass' in NR 1976-7 vol 31 pp 297-309
M J Bartholomew, 'The Award of the Copley Medal to Charles Darwin' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 209-218
Sir Gavin de Beer, ed, 'Some Unpublished Letters of Charles Darwin' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 12-66
H G L, 'A Fragment of History' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 28-31
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 1. 1731-1847' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 307-332
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
D Carr Agnew, 'Robert Fitzroy and the myth of 'Marsden Square': Transatlantic rivalries in early marine meteorology' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 21-46
E Murphy, 'A mad house transformed: the lives and work of Charles James Beverly FRS (1788-1868) and John Warburton MD FRS (1795-1847)' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 267 - 281
G Ferrari and A McConnell, 'Robert Mallet and the 'Great Neapolitan earthquake' of 1857 in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 45-64
Notes:
Given the course of his life, probably better to describe him as British even though he was born in Ireland.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/29833874
Royal Society codeNA8279
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MM/11/177ALetter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to Edward Sabine21 March 1842
MM/14/19'Memorandum of Suggestions' for the Vancouver Island Expedition by Edward Sabinec.1858
MM/19/52Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society7 August
MM/19/61Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Societynd
MS/769/93Letter from Edward Sabine to Walter Whitend
MM/19/53Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society26 May
MM/19/79Draft of a letter from William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society, to Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society5 March 1868
MS/843/10Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to William Sharpey1 June [1860]
MM/19/50Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society7 May
MM/19/57Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Societynd
MM/19/56Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Societynd
MM/11/46Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Lord Northampton18 May 1847
MM/19/58Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Societynd
AP/51/2Observations of the Absolute Direction and Intensity of Terrestial Magnetism at Bombay1869
AP/40/7Remarks upon the Magnetic Observations transmitted from York Fort on Hudson Bay in August 1857 by Lieut. Blackstone of the Royal Artillery1857
MM/19/37Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society1 November 1864
IM/003973Sabine, Sir Edwardnd
IM/Maull/003970Sabine, Sir Edwardnd
MS/769/76Letter from Edward Sabine, Llanfair, to [C R Weld?]17 August 1858
EC/1818/01Sabine, Sir Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/19/59Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Societynd
MS/769/91Letter from Edward Sabine, 15 Ashley Place, to [Walter White]nd
MM/11/176Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to E Sabine2 March 1842
AP/31/13Remarks on De la Rive's Theory for the physical explanation of the causes of what produces the Diurnal Variation of the Magnetic Declination16 April 1849
MM/14/105Letter from JT Walker, Dehra Doon, India, to Edward Sabinec.1860s
MM/3/9Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Daniell2 February 1844
MM/19/3Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society5 August 1854
MS/769/92Letter from Edward Sabine, Leeds Club, to [Walter White]27 September 1858
MM/14/67Copy of a letter from Edward Sabine to F Elliot, on the proposed Melbourne Telescope1860s
MM/14/159Letter from PE Chase, Philadelphia, to Edward Sabine1 June 1871
MM/10/162Note by Sir Edward Sabine on the magnetic instruments supplied to the African Expedition14 December 1840
MM/10/163'Plan and Estimate for the Publication of the Returns from the Ordnance Magnetic Observations', by Edward Sabine20 January 1841
MM/11/45Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwoch, to Sir J W Lubbock4 February 1845
MM/19/62Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society25 April
MM/10/76Draft of a letter from Sir Edward Sabine to A Kupffer21 July 1863
MM/4/40Letter from John Richardson, Lincolnshire, to General Edward Sabine, 15 March 1857
MM/11/182Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to G B Airy11 May 1842
MM/19/12Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society22 July 1856
MM/10/81Letter from LAJ Quetelet, Brussels, to Sir Edward Sabine9 August 1864
MM/10/83Incomplete letter to Sir Edward Sabine c.1840s
MM/21/26Letter from Edward Sabine to Nell de Breaute18 February 1826
MM/4/42Letter from Charles Daubeny, to General Sabine23 March 1857
AP/37/4Letter from Christian Langberg, Christiana, to Edward Sabine on Terrestial Magnetism10 January 1855
MM/10/39Letter from AT Kupffer, to Sir Edward Sabine15/27 January 1840
MM/19/40Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society10 December 1864
MM/16/135Letter from Charles Lyell, Royal Society, to Sir John Herschel9 March 1848
MM/10/80Letter from Kreil, Vienna, to Sir Edward Sabine26 November 1858
IM/Maull/003974Sabine, Sir Edwardnd
MM/10/35ATranscript of Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine, 15 May 1830 (MM/10/35)15 May 1830
DM/4/128Letter from Beaufort, Admiralty, to Edward Sabine14 December 1829
MM/4/41Letter from James David Forbes, Edinburgh, to General Sabine21 March 1857
MM/4/38Letter from John Ball, Colonial Office, to John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley6 March 1857
MM/12/83Letter from Sir Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Thomas Bell11 May 1853
MS/769/88Letter from Edward Sabine to [Walter White]1 August ny
MM/19/55Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society27 June
MM/10/45Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine25 March / 6 April 1841
MM/10/40Letter from AT Kupffer, to Sir Edward Sabine16 February 1840
MM/11/61Letter from William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, to Sir Edward Sabine2 October 1854
MM/11/9'Note on the Pearl Fishing Enquiry'19th century
MM/19/42Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society28 April 1865
MM/19/29Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society1 August 1861
MM/14/143Letter from Bandinell to Edward Sabine
MM/11/188Copy of a letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood, to E Sabine20 February 1847
MM/10/19Letter from James Clerk Maxwell, Cambridge, to RH Scott c.1879
MM/10/82Copy of a letter from Karl Kreil, Durazzo, to Sir Edward Sabine2 September
MM/10/35Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Edward Sabine15 May 1830
MM/11/170Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J F W Herschel8 February 1842
MM/15/59Copy of letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood, to Edward Sabine 1 August 1849
MM/14/24'The Treasurers Financial Report to the President and Council of the Royal Society', by Edward Sabine24 February 1859
MM/16/130Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel26 June 1850
MM/11/161Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Edward Sabine26 December 1841
MM/10/174'General Results of Experiments on the Polarisation of Light', by David Brewster30 November 1829
MM/11/132Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine21 May -
MM/10/78Letter to Sir Edward Sabine5 December 1840
MM/11/177Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to G B Airy7 March 1842
DM/3/88Letter from J F W Herschel to Edward Sabinec.1841
MM/11/180Letter from F Lamont, Munich, to Edward Sabine2 May 1842
MM/10/67Letter from AT Kupffer, London, to Sir Edward Sabine4 October 1862
MM/11/136Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine6 June -
MM/10/75Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine20 July
MM/16/123Letter from Edward Sabine, Sandgate, to Lord Northampton24 October 1845
MM/10/53Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine1/13 June 1844
MM/11/183Letter from F Lamont, Munich, to Edward Sabine20 May 1842
MM/10/175'On the Polarisation of Light by Metals', by David Brewster9 January 1830
MM/10/68Letter from AT Kupffer, Paris, to Sir Edward Sabine6 October 1862
MM/10/50Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine20 June / 1 July 1842
MM/10/54Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine1/13 November 1844
MM/10/56Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine2/14 May 1845
MM/10/73ATranscript of a letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine (MM/10/73)1864
MM/10/64Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine14 / 26 January 1859
MM/11/184Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to J F W Herschel29 September 1846
MM/11/189Report of a subcommittee of the Physical Committee on the use to which the building 'formerly occupied by the Observatory at Kew' could be put, in case of its being offered to the Societyc.1840
MM/10/66Letter from AT Kupffer, Paris, to Sir Edward Sabine29 September 1862
MM/10/55Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine13/25 March 1845
MM/11/164Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to J F W Herschel27 January 1842
MM/11/179Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Edward Sabine14/26 April 1842
MM/10/72Letter from AT Kupffer, Dresden, to Sir Edward Sabine24 November 1864
MM/11/134Letter from Sir Edward Sabine 26 May -
MM/11/192Letter from J F W Herschel to Edward Sabinec.1842
MM/10/48Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine14/26 April 1842
MM/11/153'Circular to the Magnetic Observations' by from Humphrey Lloyd15 January 1841
MM/11/174Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to E Sabine19 February 1842
MM/10/77Draft of a letter from Sir Edward Sabine to AT Kupffer27 January
MM/10/59Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine22 November 1849
MM/10/74Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine
MM/11/178Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to G B Airy1 April 1842
MM/10/69Letter from AT Kupffer, Dresden, to Sir Edward Sabine17 October 1862
MM/11/135Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine27 May -
MM/10/51Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine25 July / 6 August 1842
MM/11/32Duplicate receipt for, and schedule of, the standard weights and measures, by Edward Sabine and C R Weld20 October 1853
MM/11/175Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to G B Airy23 February 1842
MM/10/36Letter from AT Kupffer, Munich [?], to Sir Edward Sabine15 August 1839
AP/39/18Letter from M R Wolf, Zurich, to Edward Sabine7 March 1857
MM/11/193Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to Edward Sabine24 November [1840]
MM/11/133Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine25 May -
MM/11/137Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine24 June -
MM/11/172Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to J F W Herschel16 February 1842
MM/11/138Letter from Sir Edward Sabine to Francis Grant18 Jul -
MM/14/71Letter from Edward Sabine, Burlington House, to JP Basevi27 August 1864
MM/16/169Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel22 January 1852
MM/11/60Letter from William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, to Sir Edward Sabine17 September 1854
MM/11/167Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to J F W Herschel28 January 1842
MM/12/68Letter from Lord Rosse, Parsonstown, to Sir Edward Sabine22 December 1852
MM/12/67Letter from Lord Rosse, Parsonstown, to Sir Edward Sabine18 December 1852
MM/19/35Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society9 August 1864
MM/16/131Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel23 May 1851
MM/16/170Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel23 January 1852
MM/16/160Letter from Edward Sabine, Old Burlington Street, to Sir John Herschel6 March 1852
MM/13/124Letter from Edward Sabine, Royal Society, to P M Roget17 February 1854
MM/14/20Extract from a despatch from Kongone by David Livingstone5 October 1858
MM/19/7Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society13 November 1854
MM/13/126Letter from William Tite, 42 Lowndes Square, to Edward Sabine6 May 1854
MM/14/64Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Charles Wheatstone30 October 1849
MM/14/30Memorandum by Edward Sabine on C R Weld's application for an increase in salary, for his post as Assistant Secretary to the Royal Society19 December 1860
MM/17/12Letter from FW Beechey to Edward Sabine19 February 1855
MM/16/158Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel13 November 1852
MM/14/83Letter from Charles Pasley, Gravesend, to Edward Sabine18 October 1865
MM/14/74Memorandum on the Meteorological Office by Edward Sabine1865
MM/19/48Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society23 February 1869
MM/19/47Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society3 July 1868
MM/19/24Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society14 December 1860
MM/19/28Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society29 July 1861
MS/710/94Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to [Robert Were Fox]26 November 1863
MM/19/39Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society12 December [1864]
MM/19/101Letter from William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, President, Royal Society, to Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society4 January 1852
MM/16/139Letter from Edward Sabine, to Sir John Herschel18 June 1840
MM/16/136Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel10 March 1848
MM/19/15Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society11 August 1857
MM/19/68Letter from Joseph Hodgson to Edward Sabine19 October 1860
MM/19/2Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society18 June 1854
MM/19/16Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society1 January 1858
MM/19/103Letter from George Biddell Airy to Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society14 December 1852
MM/19/9Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society6 October 1855
MS/710/91Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, Westminster, to [Robert Were Fox]15 December 1855
MM/19/38Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society7 November 1864
DM/1/93Letter from Edward Sabine, Beaumont Street, to James Hudson, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society30 January 1828
MS/769/84Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to [Walter White]24 June 1874
MS/710/90Letter from Edward Sabine to [Robert Were Fox] 26 January 1852
MM/19/45Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society6 March [1868]
MM/19/43Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society5 May 1865
MM/10/57Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine18/30 May 1845
MM/10/52Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine6/18 October 1843
MM/19/21Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society22 July 1860
MM/19/41Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society29 December [1864?]
MM/19/23Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society20 October [1860]
MM/10/49Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine21 May / 2 June 1842
MM/19/13Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society4 September 1856
MM/10/37Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine14/26 November 1839
MM/10/62Letter from AT Kupffer, Dresden, to Sir Edward Sabine26 August 1854
MM/19/46Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society13 April 1868
MM/19/33Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society14 April 1862
MM/19/31Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, President, Royal Society28 September 1861
MM/19/11Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society17 January 1856
MM/19/22Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society15 October 1860
MM/19/18Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society1 March 1859
MM/19/10Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society19 December 1855
MM/19/112Letter from Thomas Romney Robinson to Edward Sabine28 July 1853
MM/19/32Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society30 October 1861
MM/19/44Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society21 February [1868]
MM/19/36Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society20 September 1864
MM/19/20Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society27 April 1859
MS/710/93Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to [Robert Were Fox]23 March 1860
MM/19/30Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society2 September 1861
MM/19/27Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society20 July 1861
MS/769/82Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to Walter White23 December 1862
MS/710/95Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to Robert Were Fox24 June 1865
DM/3/150Letter from Edward Sabine, Portland Place, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society12 May 1825
MS/710/92Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to [Robert Were Fox] 10 February 1860
DM/1/84Letter from R Watts, Crown Court, Temple Bar, to Edward Sabine13 February 1828
MS/374/9/9Document explaining the circumstances of Alexander Gordon Laing's death[1832]
MM/10/60Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine26 December 1849 / 6 January 1850
DM/3/162Letter from Edward Sabine, London, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society5 May 1825
MM/19/6Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society31 October 1854
MS/769/89Letter from Edward Sabine, to [Walter White]29 September ny
MS/769/79Letter from Edward Sabine, Llanfair, to [Walter White]9 September 1858
AP/35/7On a general law of density in saturated vapours1853
DM/4/75Copy of a letter from Edward Sabine, Secretary, Royal Society, to Sir Thomas Brisbane6 February 1830
MS/843/26Letter from Edward Sabine, the Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to William Sharpey12 June 1869
AP/31/8Letter from Adolph Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Edward Sabine on the establishment of a central observatory at St PetersburgAugust 1849
AP/13/7On Ailmentary Substances12 October 1827
AP/51/13Tables on Air Currents1869
MS/769/77Letter from Edward Sabine, Llanfair, to [C R Weld?]21 August 1858
AP/34/19On the Application of the Law of the Conservation of Energy to the Determination of the Magnetic Meridian on board Ship; when out of reach or out of sight of LandApril 1853
MS/769/80Letter from Edward Sabine, British Association, Leeds, to [Walter White]28 September 1858
AP/38/17Notes on the Drawing of Copernicus by Secchi 1856
MS/843/3Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to William Sharpey27 [October 1856]
MS/769/90Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to [Walter White]9 February ny
AP/47/8Numerical Elements of Indian Meteorology. Second Series1864
MS/769/85Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to [Walter White]13 April 1875
MS/769/86Letter from Edward Sabine, Llandovery, to Walter White22 September [1870]
MS/769/83Letter from Edward Sabine, Llandovery, to [Walter White]21 August 1867
AP/30/14On Terrestial Magnetism 1847
MS/769/87Letter from Edward Sabine to Walter White2 November ny
AP/31/9On the determination of the Difference of Longitude by means of the Magnetic Telegraph 8 August 1848
AP/47/10Charts & Curves1865
AP/51/3On the uneliminated instrumental error in the observations of Magnetic Dip 1869
AP/47/7Numerical Elements of Indian Meteorology. Third Series1865
MS/843/18Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to [William Hallowes] Miller16 February 186-
MM/19/5Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society18 October 1854
MM/14/69'Note by General Sabine referring to the suggestions contained in Dr Robinson's and Sir George Everest's letters'23 June 1864
AP/31/7An Account of Astronomical Observations proposed to be made in South America25 October 1848
CMB/42/3North American Exploration CommitteeMarch 1857 to June 1857
MM/14/144Letter from H Barth, Alpha Road, to Edward Sabine8 October 1857
MM/22/76Letter from Edward Sabine to John Edward Gray15 December ny
DM/3/151Copy of a letter from William Thomas Brande, Secretary, Royal Society, to Edward Sabine10 March 1826
MM/22/77Letter from Edward Sabine, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to 'My dear Sir'26 October ny
MS/374/9/8Letter from R[obert] W[illiam] Hay, Downing Street, to Captain [Edward] Sabine and reply29 December 1832-21 January 1833
MS/374/9/10Letter from _____ to Sir C[harles] MacCarthy[1821]
MS/374/4/3Letter from Captain Edward Sabine to Captain Alexander Gordon Laing, Sierra Leone1 February 1822
IM/Maull/003971Sabine, Sir Edwardnd
NLB/2/382Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Henry Scott [Fellow of the Royal Society]23 May 1888
NLB/6/969Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Henry Scott, Fellow of the Royal Society27 September 1892
MM/22/75Letter from Edward Sabine, 13 Ashley Place, to 'My dear Sir'11 August 1862
NLB/15/829Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Robert Henry Scott, Fellow of the Royal Society20 December 1897
NLB/16/44Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to M Rykatcheff, St Petersburg18 January 1898
NLB/15/417Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to M M Rykatcheff, Directeur, Observatoire Physique Central, Pavlovski, Russia 27 September 1897
NLB/15/709Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Robert Henry Scott, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1897
S/0019Sculpture bust of Sabine, Sir Edward1860
RR/3/244Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R. N., and the officers of H. M. S. ‘Plover,' in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on the shores of the polar sea' by Edward Sabine4 November 1857
MM/10/172'Proposal for an attempt to complete the Discovery of a North-West Passage', by John BarrowDecember 1844
RR/6/262Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to William Allen Miller, regarding a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism.—No. XI' by Edward Sabine17 July 1868
RR/3/7Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies' by George Biddell Airy21 September 1857
RR/2/40Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the automatic temperature-compensation of the force magnetometers' by Charles Brooke29 October 1857
RR/2/215Referee's report by Michael Faraday, on a paper 'On periodical laws discoverable in the mean effects of the larger magnetic disturbance.—No. II' by Edward Sabine15 May 1851
RR/1/95Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On magnets' by Graves Champney Haughton26 June 1846
RR/2/213Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'On periodical laws discoverable in the mean effects of the larger magnetic disturbances' by Edward Sabine11 February 1851
RR/2/214Referee's report by Michael Faraday, on a paper 'On periodical laws discoverable in the mean effects of the larger magnetic disturbances' by Edward Sabine3 February 1851
RR/4/160Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'Report to the Royal Society of the expedition into the Kingdom of Naples to investigate the circumstances of the earthquake of the 16th December 1857' by Robert Mallet26 October 1860
RR/3/239Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On the lunar-diurnal magnetic variation at Toronto' by Edward Sabine8 July 1856
RR/3/236Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On periodical laws discoverable in the mean effects of the larger magnetic disturbances.—No. III' by Edward Sabine27 February 1856
RR/3/238Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On the lunar-diurnal magnetic variation at Toronto' by Edward Sabine23 June 1856
RR/4/24Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the bifalar magnetometer' by John Allan Broun9 May 1860
RR/4/245Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John Owen Evans12 June 1861
RR/3/237Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On periodical laws discoverable in the mean effects of the larger magnetic disturbances.—No. III' by Edward Sabine22 April 1856
RR/2/72Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the determination of the mean temperature of every day in the year, as deduced from the observations taken at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the years from 1814 to 1851' by James Glaisher22 March 1853
RR/1/66Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'Observations of the heights of the thermometer and barometer made at Lenham Lodge, near Maidstone, Kent, during the first nine days of the month of June 1846' by George Hunsley Fielding24 June 1846
RR/1/132Letter from Edward Sabine, on a paper 'Determinations of the magnetic inclination and force in the British provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in the summer of 1847' by George W Keely22 May 1848
RR/5/232Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Results of the magnetic observations at the Kew Observatory, from 1857 and 1858 to 1862 inclusive.-No. I' by Edward Sabine11 July 1863
RR/5/231Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Results of the magnetic observations at the Kew Observatory, from 1857 and 1858 to 1862 inclusive.-No. I' by Edward Sabine30 June 1863
RR/5/259Letter from Edward Sabine, to William Sharpey, regarding a paper 'An account of experiments on the change of the elastic force of a constant volume of atmospheric air, between 32° F. and 212° F., and also on the temperature of the melting-point of mercury' by Balfour Stewart24 July 1863
RR/1/134Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the connection between the winds of the St. Lawrence and the movements of the barometer' by William Kelly25 August 1845
RR/1/133Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'Determinations of the magnetic inclination and force in the British provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in the summer of 1847' by George W Keely22 May 1848
RR/6/19Letter from Roderick Impey Murchison, to Edward Sabine, regarding a paper 'A brief account of the 'Thesaurus Siluricus,' with a few facts and inferences' by John Jeremiah Bigsby2 November 1866
RR/1/236Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On a peculiar source of deterioration of the magnetic powers of steel bars' by William Sturgeon20 October 1845
RR/1/215Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the lunar atmospheric tide at St. Helena' by Edward Sabine3 March 1847
RR/1/216Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. VII' by Edward Sabine1 June 1846
RR/1/213Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. Vl' by Edward Sabine29 June 1843
RR/1/232Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the supposed properties of the electric and magnetic fluids' by William Ford Stevenson24 June 1846
RR/6/260Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism.—No. XI' by Edward Sabine9 July 1868
RR/7/205Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XIII' by Edward Sabine8 July 1872
RR/7/64Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XII. The magnetic survey of the British Islands, reduced to the epoch 1842·5' by Edward Sabine4 July 1870
RR/7/65Referee's report by Frederick John Owen Evans, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XII. The magnetic survey of the British Islands, reduced to the epoch 1842·5' by Edward Sabine11 July 1870
RR/6/261Referee's report by George Henry Richards, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism.—No. XI' by Edward Sabine16 July 1868
RR/6/263Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, regarding two papers 'Results of the magnetic observations at the Kew Observatory.— No. III' and 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism.-No. X' by Edward Sabine13 August 1866
RR/7/137Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Records of the magnetic phenomena at the Kew observatory - No. IV. Analysis of the principal disturbances shown by the horizontal and vertical force magne­tometers of the Kew Observatory, from 1859 to 1864' by Edward Sabine12 July 1871
RR/7/136Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Records of the magnetic phenomena at the Kew observatory - No. IV. Analysis of the principal disturbances shown by the horizontal and vertical force magne­tometers of the Kew Observatory, from 1859 to 1864' by Edward Sabine4 July 1871
RR/7/204Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XIII' by Edward Sabine2 July 1872
RR/7/341Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XIV' by Edward Sabine9 July 1874
RR/7/342Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XIV' by Edward Sabine23 September 1874
RR/7/476Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XV' by Edward Sabine19 October 1876
RR/7/477Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XV' by Edward Sabine23 October 1876
RR/5/230Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'Results of the magnetic observations at the Kew Observatory, from 1857 and 1858 to 1862 inclusive.-No. I' by Edward Sabine20 June 1863
RR/5/233Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Results of hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Sir Francis Leopold M‘Clintock, R. N., and the Officers of the Yacht 'Fox,' at Port Kennedy, in the Arctic Sea, in the winter of 1858-59; and a comparison of these results with those obtained by Captain Maguire, R. N., and the Officers of H. M. S. 'Plover,' in 1852, 1853, and 1854, at Point Barrow' by Edward Sabine21 January 1864
MS/257Correspondence of Sir Edward Sabine, PRS1818-1875
RR/2/216Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On the periodic and non-periodic variations of the temperature at Toronto in Canada, from 1841 to 1852 inclusive' by Edward Sabine16 February 1853
RR/1bis/23Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on an untraced paper 'On variation of the magnetic needle as observed at Washington City D.C. 24 July 1840' by Gillies29 March 1843
RR/1bis/45Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism. — No. VIII' by Edward Sabine23 June 1846
RR/1bis/44Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism.—No. IV' by Edward Sabine26 May 1843
RR/1/34Letter from Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the automatic registration of magnetometers, and other meteorological instruments, by photography' by Charles Brooke25 June 1846
RR/1/35Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the automatic registration of magnetometers, and other meteorological instruments, by photography' by Charles Brooke25 June 1846
RR/1/217Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'An account of the southern magnetic surveying expedition. By Lieut. H. Clerk, R. A., in a letter to Lieut.-Colonel Sabine, R. A., F. R. S' by Lieutenant Henry Clerk24 June 1846
RR/1/214Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the diurnal variation of the magnetic declination at St. Helena' by Edward Sabine3 March 1847
RR/1/41Letter from Samuel Hunter Christie, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. VIII' by Edward Sabine2 June 1846
RR/3/200Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the construction of the new imperial standard pound, and its copies of platinum ; and
on the comparison of the imperial standard pound with the kilogramme des archives' by William Hallowes Miller		25 June 1856
IM/003972Sabine, Sir Edward and Miller, William Allennd
RR/3/242Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R. N., and the officers of H. M. S. ‘Plover,' in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on the shores of the polar sea' by Edward Sabine 4 September 1857
RR/3/240Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On the evidence of the existence of the decennial inequality in the solar-diurnal magnetic variations, and its non-existence in the lunar-diurnal variation, of the declination at Hobarton' by Edward Sabine7 January 1857
MS/427/339Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert Henry] Scott, Esq.8 February 1884
MS/426/6Copy letter from Lord Northampton [Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton] President of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable, the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Francis Thornhill Baring]11 January 1841
MS/427/309Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert Henry] Scott, Esq.5 November 1883
MS/427/312Copy letter from Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Hon. [Chalres] W. Fremantle8 November 1883
MS/426/66Copy letter from [John William] Lubbock, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Messrs. Melville22 October 1842
MS/426/132Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Col [Edward] Sabine25 April 1845
MS/426/95Copy letter from Lord Northampton [Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton] President of the Royal Society; to the Right Hon. Earl Heddington [George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden]13 June 1844
MS/426/85Copy letter from J W [John William] Lubbock, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Lieut. Col. [Edward] Sabine R A2 March 1844
MS/426/212Duplicate enclosure in Lord Northampton's [Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton] letter to Sir R [Robert] Peel26 June 1846
MS/426/123Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lt. Co. [Edward] Sabine, Woolwich28 February 1845
MS/426/160Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lieut Col [Edward] Sabine12 November 1845
MS/426/380Copy letter from S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to J C [James Cosmo] Melvill Esq28 May 1849
MS/426/635Note of a letter from W [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Col [William Henry] Sykes29 May 1858
MS/426/453Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Treasury18 October 1851
MS/426/435Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Samuel Elliott] Hoskins19 November 1850
MS/426/494Note of a letter from [the Secretaries of] the Royal Society; to the Earl of Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon][30 November 1853]
MS/426/533Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Babbage28 November 1854
MS/426/538Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mr R Bate4 May 1855
MS/426/662Copy letter from B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie; President of the Royal Society; to Ed [Edward] Hammond Esq, Foreign Office26 February 1859
MS/426/7Copy letter from Lord Northampton [Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton] President of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable, the Master General of the Ordnance [Richard Hussey Vivian?]11 January 1841
MM/10/79Letter from C Tcheffkine, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine21 August 1841
M/259Lalande Gold Medal of the Institute de France awarded to Captain Edward Sabine1825
MS/426/593Copy letter from W [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Captain [Francis] McClintock R N6 June 1857
MM/11/195'A memorandum on the subject of Pendulum Experiments, to be submitted to the joint Committee of Physics and Meteorology of the Royal Society', by Edward Sabinec.1840
MM/10/71Letter from AT Kupffer, Dresden, to Sir Edward Sabine24 November 1863
MM/10/73Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine29 July / 9 August 1864
MM/10/65Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine20 August / 10 September 1859
MM/10/64ATranscript of a letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine (MM/10/64)1859
MM/21/46Letter from William Thomson, Baron Kelvin to Edward Sabine4 October 1853
MM/19/74Letter from William Hallowes Miller, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society1 October 1860
MM/10/61Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine22 September / 4 October 1853
MM/10/86Letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood, to Sir Edward Sabine3 October 1870
MM/10/86ATranscript of a letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood, to Sir Edward Sabine 1870
MM/10/17Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Cambridge, to RH Scott8 June 1879
MM/10/85Copy of letter from Col JT Walker, Dehra Doon, to Sir Edward Sabine11 August 1870
MM/19/54Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society7 August
MM/10/87Copy of a letter from G B Airy, Carlisle, to Sir Edward Sabine3 October 1870
MM/15/6List of letters to Sir JC Ross in the collection of Sir Edward Sabine's correspondence
MM/19/51Letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society21 June
MM/19/49Letter from William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley to Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society6 November 1869
MM/10/38Letter from AT Kupffer, to Sir Edward Sabine11/23 December 1839
MM/19/17Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society4 January 1858
MM/21/82Letter from Edward Sabine [to Walter White]20 July 1863
MM/19/85Letter from John Peter Gassiot to Thomas Bell22 October 1860
MM/11/194Letter from Edward Sabinend
MM/9/73Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper4 March 1851
MM/10/44Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine10/22 August 1840
MM/10/41Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine18/30 March 1840
MM/11/31Notes by Edward Sabine and C R Weld on the standard weights and measures20 October 1853
MM/10/42Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine18/30 April 1840
MM/10/47Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine22 February 1841 / 7 March 1841
MM/10/43Letter from AT Kupffer, to Sir Edward Sabine2/14 January 1840
MM/10/63Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine26 April / 6 May 1856
MM/21/25Letter from Edward Sabine to Nell de Breaute3 February 1826
MM/19/19Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society26 April 1859
MM/19/108Letter from George Biddell Airy to Edward Sabine12 April 1853
MM/19/25Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society26 March 1861
MM/19/1Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society25 May 1853
MM/19/8Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society20 April [1855]
MM/19/4Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society13 October 1854
MM/10/46Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine13 May 1841
MM/10/58Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine22 September / 4 October 1845
MM/10/70Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine3/15 July 1863
MM/19/26Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society15 July 1861
MM/19/14Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society24 October 1856
MM/19/34Letter from Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society1863
DM/4/92Copy of letter from Edward Sabine to Sir Thomas Brisbane13 March 1830
DM/4/76Letter from Thomas Brisbane, Makerstoun, Kelso, to Edward Sabine, Secretary, Royal Society21 February 1830
MS/769/81Letter from Edward Sabine, St Mary's Cottage, Llandovery, to [Walter White]3 August 1860
MS/769/78Letter from Edward Sabine, Llanfair, Llandovery, to [Walter White]30 August 1858
NLB/13/533Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Admiral William James LLoyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society3 October 1896
NLB/32/267Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Herr Professor Dr Georg von Neumayer, Hohenzoller Strasses, 9, Neustadt an der Haardt10 February 1906
RR/4/259Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the great magnetic disturbance which extended from August 28 to September 7, 1859, as recorded by photography at the Kew Observatory' by Balfour Stewart10 July 1861
RR/5/236Referee's report by Thomas Romney Robinson, on a paper 'A comparison of the most notable disturbances of the magnetic declination in 1858 and 1859 at Kew and at Nertschinsk; preceded by a brief retrospective view of the progress of the investigation into the laws and causes of the magnetic disturbances' by Edward Sabine19 May 1864
RR/5/234Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'A comparison of the most notable disturbances of the magnetic declination in 1858 and 1859 at Kew and at Nertschinsk; preceded by a brief retrospective view of the progress of the investigation into the laws and causes of the magnetic disturbances' by Edward Sabine24 May 1864
RR/6/259Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on two papers 'Results of the magnetic observations at the Kew Observatory.— No. III' and 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism.-No. X' by Edward Sabine14 July 1866
MS/426/410Copy letter from Edward Sabine, Foreign Secretary fo the Royal Society; to W S Craig21 March 1850
RR/5/235Referee's report by Thomas Romney Robinson, on a paper 'Results of hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Sir Francis Leopold M‘Clintock, R. N., and the Officers of the Yacht 'Fox,' at Port Kennedy, in the Arctic Sea, in the winter of 1858-59; and a comparison of these results with those obtained by Captain Maguire, R. N., and the Officers of H. M. S. 'Plover,' in 1852, 1853, and 1854, at Point Barrow' by Edward Sabine26 January 1864
RR/3/243Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On the evidence of the existence of the decennial inequality in the solar-diurnal magnetic variations, and its non-existence in the lunar-diurnal variation, of the declination at Hobarton' by Edward Sabine24 December 1857
MS/426/530Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to James Wilson Esq28 October 1854
MS/426/278Copy of the Memorial from Joseph H [Henry] Kay, Lieut R N, Director of the Magnetic Observatory; to the President of the Royal Society30 November 1846
MS/426/360Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to J D [James David] Forbes, Edinburgh4 January 1849
MS/426/474Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles Young1 November 1852
AP/31/11Some Remarks on a paper entitled "On the depth of Rain which falls in the same localities at different altitudes in the Hilly districts of Lancashire, Cheshire etc" by SC Homershaw8 September 1848
MM/11/150Letter from Edward Sabine, London, to Col WH Sykes20 November 1840
MM/11/155Letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood11 May 1841
IM/003968Sabine, Sir Edwardnd
MM/14/13Memorandum from William Parsons, Lord Rosse1855
MS/119/1/1Letter from Edward Sabine to Humphrey Lloyd, Limerick 21 August 1833
RR/6/222Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Edward Sabine, regarding a paper 'On the muscular arrangements of the bladder and prostate, and the manner in which the ureters and urethra are closed' by James Bell Pettigrew22 August 1866
P/0114Portrait of Sabine, Sir Edward1860s
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