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Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel

Reference number: MC/5/380

Date: 21 December 1858

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Regarding the value of the Society's proposed magnetic establishment [near Vancouver Island], the state of light instruments, as well as the expense of publishing abstracts of observations.

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MC/5/380
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21 December 1858
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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George Biddell Airy

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George Biddell Airy, Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, 21 December 1858, MC/5/380, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_5_380/letter-from-g-b-george-biddell-airy-royal-observatory-greenwich-to-sir-j-f-w-john-frederick-william-herschel, accessed on 20 January 2026

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