Copy of a letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to Sir [Robert] Peel Herschel informs Peel of a resolution by the British Association about ‘soliciting the favourable consideration’ of the government proposing the encouragement ‘by specific pecuniary rewards’ of the ‘improvement of self-recording magnetic and meteorological apparatus’. Herschel discusses the reasons the British Association are making this application. Includes an extract of the resolution and outlines advantages of proposal. 9 July 1845