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Letter from Wilhelm Mahlmann, 22 Alte Leipziger Strasse, Berlin, to Sir John Frederick William Herschel, President of the Physical and Meteorological Committee of the Royal Society

Reference number: MC/4/59

Date: 15 March 1845

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Requesting an exchange of magnetical and meteorological observations between the Royal Society and offering three volumes of his transactions in advance. Mahlmann also requests some to be forwarded to the Meteorological Society in London.

The back contains a note from Herschel explaining the letter's relevance to the Committee of Physics and Meteorology and to the Foreign Secretary.

[Mahlmann to be added to list of recipients for 'Greenwich Observations' as per 22 May 1845.]

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MC/4/59
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15 March 1845
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2 pages
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Wilhelm Mahlmann

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Wilhelm Mahlmann, Letter from Wilhelm Mahlmann, 22 Alte Leipziger Strasse, Berlin, to Sir John Frederick William Herschel, President of the Physical and Meteorological Committee of the Royal Society, 15 March 1845, MC/4/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_4_59/letter-from-wilhelm-mahlmann-22-alte-leipziger-strasse-berlin-to-sir-john-frederick-william-herschel-president-of-the-physical-and-meteorological-committee-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 15 July 2026

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