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Copy of a letter. Requests information concerning a letter to the Treasury, which Edward Sabine had asked John Frederick William Herschel to write, regarding funding for [meteorological] stations in Vancouver, Shanghai, Newfoundland, and the Falkland Isla

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HS/23/281
Earliest possible date
28 October 1859
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine, dated at Collingwood, 28 October 1859, HS/23/281, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_23_281/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-edward-sabine-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 22 April 2025

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