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Letter from Sir [John Frederick William] Herschel, Collingwood, to Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]

Reference number: MC/4/296

Date: 1 November 1849

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Expressing support for Captain [Charles Morgan] Elliott's proposal to connect all Indian observatories with the instruments of the magnetical survey of the Indian archipelago.

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MC/4/296
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1 November 1849
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3 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter from Sir [John Frederick William] Herschel, Collingwood, to Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], 1 November 1849, MC/4/296, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_4_296/letter-from-sir-john-frederick-william-herschel-collingwood-to-colonel-edward-sabine-foreign-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 25 April 2025

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