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Add. MS a/207/36
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Letter from John Herschel
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- 22 Feb. [1839] (Creation)
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3 pp
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JH would like to know whether WW will authorise him to pay for the two actimometers, for a vertical force magnetometer and for a bifilar magnetow for the [Breslau?] observatory. JH doubts whether they should purchase Osler's anemometer since he doubts whether their power extends to the ordering of meteorological instruments, and unlike the actimometers this is a very expensive instrument. Further 'they cannot be constructed abroad having never been described'. If WW and Peacock agree on the grant can they tell [Edward] Sabine. There will be no grant for the Hammerfist as was originally thought.
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Second leaf of letter clipped at bottom, taking text.