From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.109
Summary:
Has JH any special instructions for [Louis] Agassiz's actinometers? Has sent Wilhelm Weber recent data for Toronto and St. Helena observatories while requesting Göttingen lunar observations. Discusses publication of the German Magnetic Association. Seeks advice on the inclusion of a translation of JH's paper on photometric apparatus. Has left at the R.S.L. a copy of C. F. Gauss's and Weber's magnetic atlas.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project