Unidad documental simple 96 - Letter from John William Lubbock

29 Eaton Place - The Royal Society has determined that all the committee reports should be made general, and not specifically suited only to Captain Ross's [John Ross] voyage. Thus tides can now occupy a much larger place. Apart from the Physics committee, the others - Geology, Zoology and Botany - have set to work on preparing instructions for scientific travellers: 'so that they may in remote countries know how to add information when it is most wanted and Procure opinions of objects imperfectly known'. JWL believes he has discovered the true relation between elasticity and temperature in elastic fluids. Since this furnishes the condition of the atmosphere, he is testing it with light and hopes to produce a table of refractions.