From:
unknown
To:
J W Lubbock
Date:
4 April 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/52, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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Asks JH if he would like the Meteorological Committee to meet before R.S.L. Council meets. Having received news that the wife of [Thomas] Spring Rice, the person in charge of the fixed observations, is 'dangerously ill,' ES proposes that responsibility of the project be moved to one of the executive departments.
Concerns about equipment for fixed observatories, for which aid will come from B.A.A.S., and for [naval] expedition. Expresses vital importance of meteorological observatory on Van Diemen's Land.
Asks JH if he has thought of compiling William Herschel's works.