From:
John William Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.382
Summary:
The President was requested to write to the East India Company about the observatories. Continuance of the magnetic observations at Greenwich was referred to the Committee of Physics. Cannot find where Nicolas Clement-Desormes's observations are published. Has been studying the wet bulb problem. Capt. Herbert has denounced the article on hygrometry in Brewster's Encyclopaedia.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project