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From:
William Havell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 April 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Reports that the original cost estimate of the magnetometers was low and that other instruments have been ordered. Asks to borrow clocks from the R.S.L. and the R.A.S. Has written to Major Jarvis for observers for the East Indies observatories but expects none will be found.
Suggests changes in the memorial regarding fixed observatories.
Translation of a work by C. F. Gauss and Wilhelm Weber will provide the information requested. Hopes [William Cranch] B[ond] will participate in magnetic observations. Explains 'Copper Dampers.'