| RefNo | EC/1895/13 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 282 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | McClean, Frank: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Author of 'Photographs of the Red End of the Solar Spectrum from D to A' (monthly Notices, vol xlix); 'Parallel Photographs of the Sun, Iron, and Iridium, from H to near D' (ibid); 'Comparative Photographs of High and Low Sun H to A, with Notes on the Method of Photographing the Red End of the Spectrum' (ibid, vol li); 'Comparative Photographs of Sun and Metal Spectra' (Series 1 and 2, ibid, vol lii). Inventor of McClean's Star Spectroscope, an invaluable aid in the study of stellar spectra. Attached to science and anxious promote its progress. Founder of the Isaac Newton Scholarship at Cambridge. Donor of a large telescope to the nation, to be used in physical enquiries at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: J Norman Lockyer; W H M Christie; E J Stone; George Gabriel Stokes; Robert S Ball; J W L Glaisher |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1432 | McClean; Frank (1837 - 1904) | 1837 - 1904 |