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RefNoCD/32/11
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Sir James Dewar, to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society
Date21 July 1917
DescriptionArgues against the President and Council of the Royal Society, and accuses them of damaging Dewar's good name by altering his charge of 'misleading' [against the authors of the Circular on Statute 12] based on garbled quotation or entire omission. Notes that the point that he made in his speech was a 'petty polemical point of punctuation, ironically noted in passing', and suggests that the President has changed this into 'a charge of bad faith', which Dewar claims he did not make. Asks the President to withdraw this accusation.
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FormatTypescript copy
AccessStatusOpen
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