Record

RefNoMC/4/32
LevelItem
TitleLetter from to Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood, Hawkhurtst, Kent, to the Chairman of the Committee of Physics, Royal Society
Date12 June 1844
DescriptionForwarding a letter from Sabine proposing an excursion from the Cape of Good Hope in order to complete magnetical observations between specific meridians. Herschel includes his own opinion on the matter.
[The enclosed letter is MC/4/31 within the volume.]

[Read at Council on 13 June 1844.]
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/4/31
MC/4/34
CMP/1/184
URLAlso available on Epsilon: https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel3362
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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