Record

RefNoMS/603/12/92
Previous numbers2210
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Robert Harrison, the Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to [Joseph] Larmor
CreatorHarrison; Robert William Frederick (1858-1945); British assistant secretary of the Royal Society
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date5 June 1905
DescriptionHe is obliged to Larmor for his letter, but he has read parts of it with dismay greater than before. He will not labour that his exclusion from the Statutes Committee was a subsiduary point, and he was certainly unwilling to embarrass others in a discussion of a personal nature. He cannot see the parallel between the Royal Society's Committee, which is giving form to something already agreed by Council, and routine deliberations of the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory. He finds serious Larmor's suggestion that an elected Council cannot bind its successors with decisions affecting the life of an individual employee; these should only be reviewed on the grounds of that individual's conduct. It is startling that Larmor can suggest the Royal Society should contemplate 'such corporate inconsistency'.
Extent4p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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