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Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel

Reference number: MC/4/21

Date: 29 April 1844

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Enclosing Lieutenant Elliot's proposal of a magnetic survey around the Singapore magnetic observatory.
[Enclosure not present.]

[Letter read by Council on 2 May 1844.]

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MC/4/21
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29 April 1844
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Sabine

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Edward Sabine, Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel, 29 April 1844, MC/4/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_4_21/letter-from-lieutenant-colonel-edward-sabine-foreign-secretary-of-the-royal-society-woolwich-to-sir-john-herschel, accessed on 19 April 2025

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