RefNo | MC/6/12 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from John J [Joseph] Bennett, British Museum, to Sir Benjamin [Collins] Brodie, [President of the Royal Society] |
Date | 12 February 1859 |
Description | Regarding multiple appeals made to Robert Brown's executors, of whom Bennett is one, to publish papers in Brown's possession which are regarded as evidence in the discussion about who wrote on the composition of water first, Cavendish or Watt. Bennett quotes from some of Brown's correspondence in French.
[The letter covers two papers, the second of which is labelled within the volume as MC/6/12a.] |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedRecord | MC/6/16 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7056 | Bennett; John Joseph (1801 - 1876) | 1801 - 1876 |
NA8147 | Brodie; Sir; Benjamin Collins (1783 - 1862); surgeon | 1783 - 1862 |