Record

RefNoMC/8/5
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Thomas Ayers, Yarmouth, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Date15 January 1867
DescriptionRegarding the Society's denial of his description of Tait and Stewart's experiment in his latest letter [see related records]. Ayers presents an experiment on the movement of a body from one place to another in order to showcase the lack of truth in some of the Society's opinions.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/7/388
MC/7/392
MC/8/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6042Stewart; Balfour (1828 - 1887)1828 - 1887
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