| RefNo | MC/5/239 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] |
| Date | 26 April 1856 |
| Description | Requesting permission to have a couple of copies made of the fifth plate within the 1798 'Philosophical Transactions', which depicts Sir George Shuckburgh's scale-comparing apparatus.
[The next number in the sequence MC/5/240 is not present.] |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1798.0010 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8358 | Shuckburgh-Evelyn; Sir; George Augustus William (1751 - 1804); mathematician | 1751 - 1804 |
| NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |