Record

RefNoMC/12/101
LevelItem
TitleLetter from William Law, Treasury Chambers, to [William Spottiswoode], President of the Royal Society
CreatorLaw; William (fl 1878-1880); assistant secretary to the Treasury
Date22 October 1880
DescriptionForwarding copies of a letter and an enclosure from the Admiralty regarding the arrangements for observing the transit of Venus in 1882. Law also asks for the Society's approval of W Stone as the new Astronomer Royal.

[Enclosures are present, have an extent of 5p over three papers, and are labelled MC/12/101a-101c within the volume.]
Extent7p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7690Spottiswoode; William (1825 - 1883)1825 - 1883
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