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Add. MS a/201/114
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Letter from Charles Brooke
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- 17 July 1848 (Creation)
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29 Keppel Street - Thanks WW for his cheque for £100. Colonel Sabine wants some registering apparatus to send to the Toronto observatory by the end of this month. Asks if it is acceptable to give him one of WW's time-pieces and a mirror which he can replace in a month or so. To help CB get remuneration George Airy promises to report to the Government the success of his apparatus. John Herschel, Henry De La Beche and Colonel Sykes think the observatory at Kew ought to be under the auspices of Government and made a depot for meteorological science. If such a plan took place CB would like a permanent situation.
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- Brooke, Charles (1804-1879) surgeon and inventor of measuring instruments (Subject)
- Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer (Subject)
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) 1st Baronet, mathematician and astronomer (Subject)
- Beche, Sir Henry Thomas De la (1796–1855) Knight, geologist (Subject)