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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Scoresby
Date:
8 June 1840
Source of text:
WLPS MS
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Gentleman from Holland, sent by his King, has arrived and is eager to learn about and set up a magnetic observatory in Holland and two or three more in the Dutch colonies. Is excited about the possibility of a South American station. Believes it possible that in a few years there will be maps of all the oceans.
Desires that JH read the enclosed work by Mrs. Sabine about Antarctica.
Invitation to Hawkhurst. Has plenty of R.S.L. work to keep him from his observational work. Question of a new observatory. Has had letter from Wilhelm Struve regarding the fifteen-inch object glass.
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