Record

RefNoMC/8/35
LevelItem
TitleLetter from C W [Charles Watkins] Merrifield, Honorary Secretary of the Institution of Naval Architects, South Kensington Museum, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Date6 April 1867
DescriptionRequesting permissions to copy his paper on a new method of calculating statical stability of a ship, as well as Professor [William John Macquorn] Rankine's note on it for the 'Transactions' of the institution, which will be published in December 1867.
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1866.0077
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1866.0088
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA729Merrifield; Charles Watkins (1827 - 1884)1827 - 1884
NA1846Rankine; William John Macquorn (1820 - 1872)1820 - 1872
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