| RefNo | MC/9/375 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Herman Merivale, India Offices, London, to G B [George Biddell] Airy, President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly |
| Date | 16 May 1872 |
| Description | Forwarding a memorandum from the Asiatic Society of Bengal regarding deep sea dredging operations in the Indian Ocean. Merivale also attaches a dispatch received from the Secretary of State on the topic. £200 will be placed at the Royal Society's disposal to acquire the necessary instruments and appliances for these investigations.
[Typed enclosures are present within the volume and have an extent of 7p, including a covering sheet. They cover three papers, labelled MC/9/375a-c within the volume. These items are all enclosures to MC/9/375, see related record.] |
| Extent | 10p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Typescript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/9/377 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |