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RefNoEC/1864/13
Previous numbersCert X, 63
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TitleSmythe, William James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationDirector of the Magnetical and Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory, St Helena, from 1842 to 1847. Member of the Commission of Inquiry into the state of Military Education on the Continent in 1856, and HM's Commissioner to report on the offer of the cession of the Fiji Islands to Her Majesty in 1860-1861. Author of a paper printed in vol xi of Roy Soc Proc 'On the Magnetic Declination, Dip, and Force at the Fiji Islands in 1860-1861.'
ProposersH Lloyd; R FitzRoy; F R Chesney; B Stewart; J H Lefroy; C J B Riddell; F Crace-Calvert; J F W Herschel; T R Robinson; T A Larcom; A Smith; F J Evans
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Smythe, William James: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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CodePersonNameDates
NA2701Smythe; William James (1816 - 1887)1816 - 1887
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