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RefNoCD/53/14
LevelItem
TitleLetter from John Roscoe, [leader of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition], Ovington Rectory, Thetford, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society
Date4 March 1921
DescriptionNotes that he just got home from Oxford, where he had a week going over the objects from Africa. Regarding his secretary [Miss Eleanor Bisset], thinks that it will cost £2 2s per week for her to stay as a guest at the Rectory. Discusses the film taken by Major [E. J. E.] Hawkins, and thinks it would be of value for work at Oxford and Cambridge where anthropology is being taught.

Handwritten note underneath by Roscoe notes that he has given an embryo monkey to Professor Thompson.
Extent1p
FormatTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
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