Letter from G V Vernon, 1 Osborne Place, Old Trafford, Manchester, to Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Treasurer of the Royal Society], 13 Ashley Terrace, Victoria Street, London Thanking the Society for recently received copies of the 'Naval Observations'. Vernon inquires after the regular upkeep of the observations through the East India Company and the Greenwich observatory. He theorises about the possibility to compute future meteorological and magnetical observations. [The letter covers two papers, the second of which is labelled MC/5/223a within the volume.] 31 January 1856