Dossier CC/2 - Letter from Charles Colville to Alexander Johnson, 10 February 1830

Letter from Charles Colville to Alexander Johnson, to thank him for his letters and to write that he had circulated its contents in the Mauritius Gazette, of which he sends a copy. He writes concerning others who have contacted regarding astronomical observations, of funding astronomical instruments and of setting up a Museum of Natural History on Mauritius. He also sends some more books after Johnston and Baron Humboldt's reception of the Madagascan New Testament. Handwritten, 4 pieces, 15 sides, dated 10 February 1830.

With this letter is a copy of the Mauritius Gazette containing the Notice: "The subjoined Observations are extracted from a Correspondence with the Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, addressed to His Excellency the Governor by the Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society, with a view of obtaining the co-operation of Scientific Observers in this hemisphere, in furtherance of the progress of science, and are, therefore, published for this purpose. Port-Louis, 13 June 1829. G.A. Barry, President of the Commission Public Instruction". The subsequent article is printed in both English and French.