Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Corry, Henry Thomas Lowry to Merivale, Herman 21 February 1859, CO 60:5, no. 2010, 305.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Corry reports that the Chief of the Meteorological Department will supply a year’s worth
of forms for observation in British Columbia.
The minutes “Acquaint” Douglas.
Corry to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Admiralty
21 February 1859
Sir,
Having laid before My Lords Commisioners of the
Admiralty your letter of the 15th Inst in which you
request to be informed whether This Department can furnish
forms of tables or General Instructions which will enable the
Governor of British Columbia to establish a series of
Meteorological observations in that Colony; I am commanded
by Their Lordships to acquaint you for the information of
Secretary Sir E. Bulwer Lytton that this Department does
possess the requisite forms &c and that the Chief
of the Meteorological Department has been instructed to send
a supply for one year to the Colonial Office for transmission
to British Columbia.
