Letter from Charles Smallwood, Montreal to Edward Sabine Refers to the ‘kindness and encouragement’ of Sabine and others. Smallwood asks Sabine to accept the vote of the [Montreal Natural History Society] to become its honorary member, and remarks on its good work. Refers to a delay in the magnetic observations. Discusses the building of the [observatory]. Discussion regarding ‘the necessity of a magnetic survey’. Smallwood has proposed placing an apparatus in the middle of the college [McGill University] and describes the observations he is ‘very anxious to carry out’. 21 October 1863