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Letter, from Francis Beaufort to Sir John Herschel, dated at Admiralty

Reference number: HS/3/408

Date: 17 July 1839

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Autograph letter signed by sender. On Friday the compensating bars will be embarked for the Cape; William Mann will be in charge of them at the Tower. Dr. T. R. Robinson is anxious to have some of the instruments from the Kew Observatory; does John Frederick William Herschel know how they may be obtained? Regarding an actinometer made by Robinson.

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HS/3/408
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17 July 1839
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3 pages
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Francis Beaufort

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Francis Beaufort, Sir Francis Beaufort, Letter, from Francis Beaufort to Sir John Herschel, dated at Admiralty, 17 July 1839, HS/3/408, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_3_408/letter-from-francis-beaufort-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-admiralty, accessed on 25 January 2026

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