| RefNo | MC/12/140 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Robert Hall, Admiralty, to [William Spottiswoode], President of the Royal Society, Burlington House |
| Creator | Hall; Vice-Admiral; Robert (1817-1882); British Royal Navy officer |
| Date | 13 January 1881 |
| Description | Regretfully denying the Society's and Sir Wyville Thomson's application to use a small vessel for deep-sea investigations near the North coast of Scotland.
[For Wyville Thomson's initial correspondence and the Society's reply, see related records.]
[The second page is on a separate paper, labelled MC/12/140a within the volume.] |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/12/108 |
| MS/427/85 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7690 | Spottiswoode; William (1825 - 1883); mathematician and physicist | 1825 - 1883 |