Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel
Reference number: MC/4/31
Date: 11 June 1844
Description
Regarding the magnetic observations taken during the Antarctic Expedition and the way in which they are and could be published. Sabine requests Herschel to present his proposal to the Committee of Physics and later to the President of the Society, [the Marquis of Northampton], and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
[The letter is enclosed with MC/4/32 within the volume.]
[Read at Council on 13 June 1844.]
- Reference number
- MC/4/31
- Earliest possible date
- 11 June 1844
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- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Edward Sabine, Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel, 11 June 1844, MC/4/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_4_31/letter-from-lieutenant-colonel-edward-sabine-foreign-secretary-of-the-royal-society-woolwich-to-sir-john-herschel, accessed on 25 April 2025
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