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From:
William Snow Harris
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 April 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Let India Board move at its own pace, and do not call on Lord Northampton. JH will write privately to 'Major J.' to suggest proper training for appointed observers.
Does not have operational telescope. Suggests WS set 1840 as epoch.
Sends Michael Faraday's analysis of TM's meteorite specimen. Cape Observatory will receive theodolite and sidereal telescopes. Government orders Antarctic Magnetico-Explorative Expedition. JH's photography work results in unfixed images. Will report on TM's paper concerning the [N. L.] Lacaille's Stations.
On the variability of the star Alpha Cassiopeia.
Has marked Thomas Maclear's paper and returned it to Thomas Galloway.