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Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel and the Chairman of the Committee for conducting the British Cooperation in Magnetic researches

Reference number: MC/4/33

Date: 17 June 1844

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Forwarding letters from Ceylon regarding a proposal to the governor for the establishment of a magnetic observatory at Columbo. Sabine's letter includes an inventory of instruments to be sent to Ceylon for these purposes.

[The enclosures are present and contain copy letters from Captain Pickering to Lieutenant-Colonel Sabine, dated 20 April 1844, from Captain W.H. Pickering to Dr Robert Templeton, assistant surgeon, dated 13 April 1844, and from Philip Anstruther [colonial secretary] to Dr Robert Templeton dated 19 April 1844. All the copy letters are written on the same paper, labelled within the volume as MC/4/33a.]

[Read at Council on 4 July 1844.]

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MC/4/33
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17 June 1844
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8 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 and the Chairman of the Committee for conducting the British Cooperation in Magnetic researches, 17 June 1844, MC/4/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_4_33/letter-from-lieutenant-colonel-edward-sabine-foreign-secretary-of-the-royal-society-woolwich-to-sir-john-herschel-and-the-chairman-of-the-committee-for-conducting-the-british-cooperation-in-magnetic-researches, accessed on 19 April 2025

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