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Autograph letter signed by sender. Reports that the original cost estimate of the magnetometers was low and that other instruments have been ordered. Asks to borrow clocks from the Royal Society [of London] and the Royal Astronomical Society Has written t

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HS/15/39
Earliest possible date
19 April 1839
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6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edward Sabine

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Edward Sabine, Letter, from Edward Sabine to Sir John Herschel, 19 April 1839, HS/15/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_39/letter-from-edward-sabine-to-sir-john-herschel, accessed on 19 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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