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M.J. 823.
C. But 7184
Kew Observatory
REG28 APR 27.
Richmond, Surrey
Feb. 17. 1883
G. M. Whipple
Superintendent
To
F. Jobeck
Director-designate of the Hong Kong Observatory.
Dear Sir,
I have great pleasure in recommending to you our F. Figg, the magnetic assistant at this Observatory, as a most suitable person for the appointment of First Assistant at the Hong Kong Observatory.
He entered the Kew Observatory in May 1872 and has passed through all the grades of assistantship up to his present position, fulfilling most efficiently the duties attached to each grade whilst he occupied it. As Assistant for two years in the Meteorological Department, he became thoroughly conversant with the methods of taking meteorological observations and recording them, of tabulating, and controlling the automatic instruments and of keeping them in order, whilst in the Verification Department he became familiar with the various methods of comparing and regulating barometers, thermometers, etc. As photographer, a post he occupied for about twelve months, he acquired a knowledge of Photographic processes as applied to registration of Magnetical and Meteorological phenomena, and whilst in charge of that department produced some of the best curves which have been obtained here.
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