| RefNo | MC/12/295 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from W T [William Turner] Thiselton Dyer, Assistant Director of Royal Gardens, Kew, to W [William] Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society, Burlington House |
| Creator | Thiselton-Dyer; Sir; William Turner (1843-1928); British botanist; third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew |
| Date | 10 January 1883 |
| Description | Expressing the hope that the Meteorological Observatory at Kew could be renamed the Richmond Observatory. The name has caused some confusion in deliveries and visitors as they find themselves at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
[For reply, see related record.] |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MS/427/251 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7968 | Thiselton-Dyer; Sir; William Turner (1843 - 1928); botanist | 1843 - 1928 |
| NA7690 | Spottiswoode; William (1825 - 1883); mathematician and physicist | 1825 - 1883 |