From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Francis Beaufort
Date:
5 June 1839
Source of text:
MM/1/53, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
No summary available.
Reticent to accept fellowship of London University if obligations of time and attention are too great. Requests more time to consider responsibilities of the post.
Sends continuation of Belgian meteorological observations. Just finished magnetic observations. Plans to continue certain ones. Regrets being alone, without aids, 'in front of the transit instrument, the mural circle and the equatorial.'