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Letter from Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood, to the Marquis of Northampton, [President of the Royal Society]

Reference number: MC/4/34

Date: 21 June 1844

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Forwarding to the President and to the Council letters from Lieutenant-Colonel Sabine and further letters from Captain Pickering regarding a proposed magnetic observatory in Ceylon.

[Read at Council on 4 July 1844.]

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MC/4/34
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21 June 1844
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4 pages
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Manuscript
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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 the Marquis of Northampton, [President of the Royal Society], 21 June 1844, MC/4/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_4_34/letter-from-sir-john-frederick-william-herschel-collingwood-to-the-marquis-of-northampton-president-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 07 October 2026

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