| RefNo | NLB/65/420 |
| AltRefNo | NLB/65 p229 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Arthur Smith] Woodward, FRS; also sent to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy; [Charles Thomson Rees] Wilson Esq.; [Joseph] Barcroft Esq; Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman; Sir Frank [Watson] Dyson; [William] Bateson, Esq.; Professor [John Bretland] Farmer; Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins |
| Date | 30 October 1923 |
| Description | Asks recipients whether they would like to come and collect their gold Royal Medals (in place of the copper ones issued from 1917 onwards) or whether they will accept the risk of the medals being sent by registered post. Also informs recipients that His Majesty's Privy Purse has ruled that they cannot retain the copper medals, as some had requested. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Carbon |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6492 | Woodward; Sir; Arthur Smith (1864 - 1944); palaeontologist | 1864 - 1944 |
| NA7978 | Hardy; Godfrey Harold (1877 - 1947) | 1877 - 1947 |
| NA7953 | Wilson; Charles Thomson Rees (1869 - 1959); physicist | 1869 - 1959 |
| NA6402 | Barcroft; Sir; Joseph (1872 - 1947) | 1872 - 1947 |
| NA1221 | Blackman; Frederick Frost (1866 - 1947) | 1866 - 1947 |
| NA8209 | Dyson; Sir; Frank Watson (1868 - 1939); astronomer | 1868 - 1939 |
| NA8118 | Bateson; William (1861 - 1926); biologist | 1861 - 1926 |
| NA1831 | Farmer; Sir; John Bretland (1865 - 1944); botanist | 1865 - 1944 |
| NA6168 | Hopkins; Sir; Frederick Gowland (1861 - 1947); biochemist | 1861 - 1947 |