From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Spencer J. A. Compton
Date:
[1 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.46
Summary:
Comments unfavorably on Admiralty's attitude to matters concerning magnetic observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Comments unfavorably on Admiralty's attitude to matters concerning magnetic observations.
Encloses letter received today from Mannheim. [JH note on verso] Enclosed letter of 26 Dec. 1847 was from [J. C.] Schröder to John Simson. Gratitude for receipt of [Cape Results]. F. B. G. Nicolai died last year. Schröder was appointed provisional director of Mannheim Observatory.