| RefNo | MC/6/80 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Geo A [George Alexander] Hamilton, Treasury Chambers, to [Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie], President of the Royal Society |
| Date | 16 May 1860 |
| Description | Regarding plans to establish an observatory on Vancouver Island and related expense. Hamilton clarifies the Lords Commissioners' position on using public funds for this purpose and quotes from a letter to Lord Wrottesley [the former President of the Society] from 1858, in which the Board reiterates what public funds exist and to what purpose.
[The letter covers two papers, the second of which is labelled within the volume as MC/6/80a.] |
| Extent | 7p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/6/94 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8147 | Brodie; Sir; Benjamin Collins (1783 - 1862); surgeon | 1783 - 1862 |
| NA3417 | Wrottesley; John (1798 - 1867); 2nd Baron Wrottesley | 1798 - 1867 |