| RefNo | MC/17/244 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Enclosures to MC/17/ 243 sent to Professor [John] Perry |
| Creator | The Royal Society |
| Date | 10 March 1899 |
| Description | Three enclosures originally sent for the consideration of Professor J Perry, specifically:
1) Letter from R.W. Hanbury, Treasury Chambers, to the Secretary of the Royal Society: In relation to contextual correspondence [the latter two attachments] between the Office of Works and the Royal Society, which resulted in the decision that Professors Rücker and Perry were to attend a Conference, at the Treasury, in relation to the protection of Kew Observatory from the electrical powers contemplated in various Parliamentary Bills.
2) Notes on the Conference, of A. T. Thrings, approved by Lords, titled: 'Note as to Conference on March 6 1899 at the Treasury with regard to the Protective Clauses for Greenwich Obervatory, Kew Observatory, and other Government Scientific Insitutions'.
3) Draft clause drawn up by Parliamentary Counsel, titled: 'Clause for the Protection of Government Observatories CXXXIIV (3), 9 March 1899'. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Typescript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/17/243 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6673 | Rücker; Sir; Arthur William (1848 - 1915); physicist | 1848 - 1915 |
| NA5509 | Perry; John (1850 - 1920); electrical engineer and mathematician | 1850 - 1920 |