Copy of a letter from Lord Northampton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, Royal Society to Lord Auckland Regarding a request from Mr Francis Ronalds on the recommendation from The Royal Society and the British Association concerning ‘the improvement of self-registering magnetical and meteorological instruments’. Refers to Mr Ronalds and Mr C Brooke making these changes ‘independently of each other’. Suggests ‘the appointment of a joint committee of the two societies’. 18 November 1848