A letter from Captain C. M. Elliot, Madras Engineers, to Lieut,-Col. Sabine, For. Sec. R. S., transmitted through the court of directors of the East India company. Communicated by Lieut.-Col. Sabine
Charles Morgan Elliot · Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London · 1851
Abstract Having undertaken the magnetic survey of the Indian Archipelago at the recommendation of the Royal Society, I think a slight sketch, detailed as briefly as possible, of my operations may not be uninteresting to Sir John Herschel and the Committee of Physics of which he is Chairman, prior to the publication of the Survey. I trust likewise I have acted strictly in accordance with the wishes of those who so kindly recommended me for the Survey, and I hope that my earnest efforts to do my duty will gain for me that approbation which I have under no ordinary difficulties incessantly striven to obtain. I will in the first place mention the different stations I visited, and then describe in a few words, the way in which the observations were taken.