From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1842 to 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0517.3; Reel 1093
Summary:
Hopes royal observatory at Cape of Good Hope will relieve Ordnance department. U.S. government agreed to pay for publication of observations there. A. D. Bache favors continuance of hourly meteorological observations in U.S. for one year. G. A. Erman will attend meeting at Cambridge. German translations by ES's wife.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project