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RefNoMC/2/286
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Thomas] Henderson, London, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Date18 June 1838
DescriptionRegarding a request from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department [Lord John Russell] to deliver 60 copies of the first volume of the Astronomical Observations of the University of Edinburgh to the Royal Society. Henderson offers to send them to the list of recipient institutions on the Society's behalf.

Read by Council on 5 July 1838.]
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordCMP/1/95
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5760Henderson; Thomas (1798 - 1844); astronomer1798 - 1844
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