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From:
Thomas Andrews
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 April 1844
Source of text:
QUB MS 2/13
Summary:
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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A note of thanks upon receipt of the thirteenth volume of the observations of the Cambridge Observatory.
Sends JH bulbs of Cape flowers to plant. Thanks him for sending JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Describes the obelisk placed on JH's telescope site at Feldhausen. Reports of effort to install improved roads in the colony. Construction of St. George's Church completed. Describes planned Botanical Garden at the Cape.