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From:
Joseph Allen (Bishop of Ely)
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 July 1837
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Awful night of thunder, wind, and rain; floods around the Observatory. Gives rainfall since 22 June. Has written to [J. D.?] Thompson to observe tides at Simon's Bay. Has no one at Table Bay. Measured Alpha Centauri on the meridian. Found JH's planetary nebulae with the mural circle.
About some observations, the weather, and the difficulty of establishing tide observations, given the slowness of the Admiralty.