RefNo | MC/9/419 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Astronomer Royal and [President of the Royal Society], Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society |
Date | 19 October 1872 |
Description | Requesting a loan of the photoheliograph, currently under the superintendence of Warren de la Rue at Kew Observatory. Airy assures its return after the instruments from the expedition for the transit of Venus have returned. |
Extent | 2p |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |
NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |