Record

RefNoMC/7/195
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Henry James, Colonel Royal Engineers, Ordnance Survey Ofce, Southampton, to Professor W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society
Date4 April 1865
DescriptionRegarding the results of a comparison between the Royal Society's platinum standard metre and the War Office's national standard yard.
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/7/79
MC/7/80
MC/7/90
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2879James; Sir; Henry (1803 - 1877); surveyor1803 - 1877
NA7152Miller; William Hallowes (1801 - 1880)1801 - 1880
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