| RefNo | MS/257/2/251 |
| AltRefNo | Sa.633 |
| Previous numbers | ES2/47/633 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Joseph Henry, Smithsonian Institute, Washington to Edward Sabine |
| Date | 2 December 1853 |
| Description | Henry is sending Sabine an ‘official communication’ relating to ‘a lot of packages sent for the distribution to the Royal Society’. Henry regrets to inform Sabine that the magnetic instruments arrived too late to be given for the use of the ‘exploring parties’. The cost of the instruments were added to the funds of the Institution ‘instead of being paid for by the government’. Informs Sabine the instruments will be given to the government for use of surveying parties in the spring and describes their use in the meantime. Discusses Mr Baird to send a ‘set of proceedings of the American Association as a small remuneration’ for Sabine’s services to the Smithsonian Institution. Henry informs Sabine that Captain [John Williams] Gunnison who accompanied Captain [Howard] Stansbury to Salt Lake [reference to the Stansbury expedition to survey the Great Salt Lake and its surroundings] ‘have been cut off by the Indians [Indigenous peoples of the Americas]’. Henry describes delays in setting up the observatory. Refers to the ‘great railway project’. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8279 | Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883) | 1788 - 1883 |