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From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Calling his attention to the works of J. C. Poggendorf and Guillaume Weber. Does he know of the ingenious work carried out at the Cape by C. F. Gauss and Weber?
Regrets he was unable to meet him when in Hanover. Took no part in Guillaume Weber's operations at the Cape, but has become acquainted with them through Weber's volumes. Has pressed the Admiralty on the necessity of Magnetic Observatories at various places. Regarding AH's observations on the barometer.