Description | 'Gentlemen, I am directed to inform you that the Council of this Society have appointed the following Fellows to serve on the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee for the ensuing year: - Capt. [Captain William de Wiveleslie] Abney, Mr Christie, Dr [Andrew Ainslie] Common, Dr [William] Huggins, Mr [Joseph Norman] Lockyer, Major MacMahon, Prof. [Professor Arthur] Schuster, Mr [Edward James] Stone, Dr George Johnstone Stoney, General [James Francis] Tennant, and Admiral [William James Lloyd] Wharton. I am, very faithfully yours, Robt Harrison Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. |