Record

Reference numberMC/13/38
LevelItem
TitleLetter from P L [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Secretary, Zoological Society of London, 11 Hanover Square, London, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society
CreatorSclater; Philip Lutley (1829-1913); British barrister; ornithologist
Date31 March 1884
DescriptionEnclosing copy correspondence between the Zoological Society and the Treasury regarding its omission from the list of free recipients of the 'Challenger' scientific publications. Sclater requests Huxley's assistance in rectifying the matter.

[Enclosures are present, have an extent 2p on two papers, and are labelled MC/13/38a-38b within the volume. For reply, see related record.]
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Related records in the catalogueMS/427/357
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1406Sclater; Philip Lutley (1829 - 1913); lawyer and zoologist1829 - 1913
NA8243Huxley; Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895)1825 - 1895
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