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KEW OBSERVATORY,

Richmon

25th February 1578.

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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