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I. ADDRESS TO SIR CHARLES WOOD, BART, SECRETARY OF
STATE FOR INDIA.
i.
It is not without a lively sense of the great difficulties of the work we have
undertaken, that we endeavour, in the following volumes, to present the results of the
scientific mission with which we were entrusted in the years 1854-8.
The flattering interest which His Majesty, Frederick William IV., King of Prussia,
so eminent a patron and protector of science and art, graciously condescended to take
in our former researches, on the physical geography and the geology of the Alps,
gave the first impulse which resulted in our mission to India.
It was in February, 1854, when our late friend, Baron Humboldt, and the
distinguished Prussian Minister, Baron Bunsen, then at London, officially communi-
cated His Majesty's intentions to the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
Soon after this, our late brother, Adolphe, left Munich for London, where he received
from Baron Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, the kindest reception, who gave him at the
same time most valuable advice in furtherance of our plans.
Supported by the. energetic assistance of Colonel Sykes, on the part of the Court
of Directors, and of General Sabine and Sir Roderick Murchison, on the part of the
Royal Society, all the official arrangements were made without any delay.
One of the chief objects of our researches was the completion of the Magnetic
Survey of India, which had been commenced in 1846 by the late Captain Elliot, in
the Eastern Archipelago.1 At the same time, in consequence of the high • interest
evinced in science by the distinguished Court then at the head of Indian affairs, our
mission assumed a very general and extensive character.
1 Magnetic Survey of the Eastern Archipelago, by Captain C. M. Elliot. Philosophical Transactions, 1851.
STATE FOR INDIA.
i.
It is not without a lively sense of the great difficulties of the work we have
undertaken, that we endeavour, in the following volumes, to present the results of the
scientific mission with which we were entrusted in the years 1854-8.
The flattering interest which His Majesty, Frederick William IV., King of Prussia,
so eminent a patron and protector of science and art, graciously condescended to take
in our former researches, on the physical geography and the geology of the Alps,
gave the first impulse which resulted in our mission to India.
It was in February, 1854, when our late friend, Baron Humboldt, and the
distinguished Prussian Minister, Baron Bunsen, then at London, officially communi-
cated His Majesty's intentions to the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
Soon after this, our late brother, Adolphe, left Munich for London, where he received
from Baron Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, the kindest reception, who gave him at the
same time most valuable advice in furtherance of our plans.
Supported by the. energetic assistance of Colonel Sykes, on the part of the Court
of Directors, and of General Sabine and Sir Roderick Murchison, on the part of the
Royal Society, all the official arrangements were made without any delay.
One of the chief objects of our researches was the completion of the Magnetic
Survey of India, which had been commenced in 1846 by the late Captain Elliot, in
the Eastern Archipelago.1 At the same time, in consequence of the high • interest
evinced in science by the distinguished Court then at the head of Indian affairs, our
mission assumed a very general and extensive character.
1 Magnetic Survey of the Eastern Archipelago, by Captain C. M. Elliot. Philosophical Transactions, 1851.