Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to the Committee of Physics
Reference number: MS/257/2/269
Date: 11 November 1846
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[This letter is in Edward Sabine's handwriting].
Herschel is unable to attend the meeting of the Committee of Physics personally to discuss ‘the subject of recommending to the Council the award of a Royal Medal’. Herschel draws the Committee’s attention to paper of [Philosophical Transactions] of The [Royal] Society, especially the ‘contribution to terrestrial magnetism by Colonel [Edward] Sabine’. Description of Sabine’s work in terrestrial magnetism and its importance to science. Contains a list of Sabine’s contribution in the [Philosophical] Transactions. Refers to observations, observers, and instruments.
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- MS/257/2/269
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- 11 November 1846
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- Ink on paper.
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to the Committee of Physics, 11 November 1846, MS/257/2/269, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_257_2_269/copy-of-a-letter-from-john-frederick-william-herschel-collingwood-to-the-committee-of-physics, accessed on 07 December 2025
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