To Chairman H.E.I.C. Court of Directors 1845-7

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B.A.A.S. resolutions include closing H.E.I.C. magnetic and meteorological observatories at Simla and Singapore but continuing those in Bombay and Madras. Propose magnetic survey of India Sea.

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Record number: Herschel12718
From: Sir John Herschel
To: Chairman H.E.I.C. Court of Directors
Date: 1845-7
Sent from: Collingwood
Source of text: TxU:H/L-0133; Reel 1054
Physical description: ACCS 1p

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Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds

Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium

Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library

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To Chairman H.E.I.C. Court of Directors 1845-7

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