From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
1/13 June 1844
Source of text:
MM/10/53, Royal Society
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Contributor:
Royal Society
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Wollaston Fund should be reserved for furtherance of private individual research, not for vast public projects. Prefers to ask assistance from secretary for Colonies.
Add to [ES's] enclosed letter, which ES will explain more fully at committee meeting next week.
Colonial governor at Ceylon will grant £150 annually for operation of magnetic observatory at Colombo, directed by Royal Artillery officers already there, if [R.S.L.] will supply instruments. Proposes seeking money for instruments from Wollaston Fund.
Appropriate use of Wollaston Fund for supporting research. Possible sources of instruments for new magnetic and meteorological observatory at St. John's, Newfoundland.