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Reference numberMC/21/602
Alternative reference numberMC.06602
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Donald Cameron Swan, Swan Electric Engracing Company, Northumbria House, 116 Charing Cross Road, London, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House
Date8 December 1906
DescriptionThanks Harrison for sending proof of Sir William Crookes's paper, and will now write directly to Croookes regarding instructions on printing the paper. Cameron Swan has been unable to find 'any trace of other spectra than that of Ytterbium' and thinks it is unlikely it reached them. He is sending a signed proof of his father's portait which Harrison admired, and hopes this will be accepted. Refers to Lord Lister's portrait, and informs they have searched and have been unable to find a copy other than the framed proof which they delivered the plate to John F W Silk, who was perhaps Treasurer of the Lister Portrait Fund.
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