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Letter, from Edward Sabine to Sir John Herschel

Reference number: HS/15/324

Date: 26 March 1840?

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Reports on instruments being sent to Hamburg and to Egyptian observatories. Encloses portion of [K.] Kriel's letter to [A. T.] Kupffer. Reports on [Charles] Riddell's securing a site for a meteorological observatory.

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HS/15/324
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26 March 1840?
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Sabine

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Edward Sabine, Letter, from Edward Sabine to Sir John Herschel, 26 March 1840?, HS/15/324, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_324/letter-from-edward-sabine-to-sir-john-herschel, accessed on 25 April 2025

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    This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.

    Dates: 1807 - 1875

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