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KEW OBSERVATORY,
Richmon
25th February 1578.
E
Sir
و
I am instructed by the New Committee of the Royal Society to request that
you will bring to the notice of the Right "Honble the reviebary of State, the fardinable position accupied by the bolony of Hong Konof for certain physical observations, especially - with regard to the Typhoons of the China Seas; on : Meteorology generally, and on Terrestrial Magnetion, with a view to a
Hennesony- effort to induce the Government
communication to Governor Pope Henr
and of
an
of
that
Colony,
to
support for a limited Observatory provided
term of years an Obse
with self recording instruments.
H. Mr.
Government have already
shown so warin an interest in the
promotion of physical research, in connexion with the Observatory of the
Mauritius
G. W. Herbert, Esq.
Under Secretary of State
Forth Colonies