From:
Robert Treat Paine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.213
Summary:
Magnetic observations have been made regularly for a year and a half at the college at Cambridge by W. C. Bond. After JH's letter another set of instruments has been obtained to make another series of observations. Money from Hugh Smithson has been loaned to Arkansas. Comments on red auroral light seen. With the more frequent steamship service now hopes for quicker communications from JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project