From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1858 May 3
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/33; MS JT/1/TYP/1/23, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
No summary available.
Sends JH some responses to a letter from Edward Sabine on Colonial observatories [see GA's 1858-3-13].
No summary available.
Reacts to JH's suggestions [see JH's 1858-5-[10]] for altering GA's responses [see GA's 1858-5-4] to Edward Sabine's report on magnetic observatories [includes a silly riddle, apparently passed on from Augustus De Morgan].
Provides a more detailed response to Edward Sabine's report on magnetic observatories [see GA's 1858-5-12].
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Has looked at the magnetic observations made at the Cape, and comments on their usefulness.