from the Director of the~ Observatory, and to request Your Lordship to have the goodness to
cause a
communication to be
addressed to the Admiralty with a view to obtaining
the charts and other
publications mentioned
for the use
the use of the Observatory. I have the honour to be, My Lord Marquess,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient
humble Servant,
William Robins.
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[REC 19 JUN 1893]
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Director of Observatory to Col. Secretary.
Sir,
Hongkong Observatory,
14th May, 1893.
I would most respectfully
request you to oblige
me
by asking Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies to desire the Hydrographer, the Admiralty to supply this observatory gratis with all the charts or other publications issued from his office since the 1st of January 1888 and having reference to the area between 0° and 45° N latitude and between Singapore and 180° E longitude. They are required