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Reference numberCD/37/10
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [William Whitehead] Watts, Secretary of the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies
Date28 February 1920
DescriptionInforms Professor [William Whitehead] Watts that the Royal Society has appointed the following Fellows as its representatives, to serve on Committees to discuss the proposals made at the Brussels Conference for the formation of National Research Unions in the following areas:
Mathematics: Professor [Augustus Edward Hough] Love, and Professor [Ernest William] Hobson
Physics: Sir [Richard] Glazebrook, and Professor [William Henry] Bragg
Radio-telegraphy: Sir [Richard] Glazebrook, and Mr [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton
Geology: Sir Archibald Geikie, and Professor [John Walter] Gregory
Geography: Dr [Alfred Cort] Haddon, and Colonel [Henry George] Lyons
Biological Sciences: Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, and Professor [Frederick William] Gamble.
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FormatTypescript copy
Access statusOpen
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