Reference number | CD/47/5 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from J.F. Jones, Joint Manager and Secretary of the British South Africa Company, to Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society |
Date | 8 May 1903 |
Description | Asks the approximate amount of guarantee that the British South Africa Company would have to give in respect of the measure-standard that the Royal Society would like to borrow from the Russian Government [for use measuring the geodetic arc along the 30th meridian from the Zambesi to Lake Tanganyika, Africa]. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Typescript |
Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA7376 | Huggins; Sir; William (1824 - 1910); astronomer | 1824 - 1910 |