Record

RefNoMC/16/145
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [James Thomas] Walker, Dresden, to Professor [Michael] Foster
CreatorWalker; James Thomas (1826-1896)
Date16 July 1894
DescriptionWalker is unable to act as the Royal Society's delegate at the 'proposed conference at Innsbruck to discuss international effort to make observations concerning the relations between local variations in the intensity of gravity and the conformation of the earth's crust', and discusses his reasons to delcine.
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6271Walker; James Thomas (1826 - 1896)1826 - 1896
NA8220Foster; Sir; Michael (1836 - 1907); physiologist1836 - 1907
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