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RefNoMDA/A/14/80
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Griffith-Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, to T R Merton, Treasurer of the Royal Society
Date7 September 1941
DescriptionDiscusses the fate of the Yarrow Educational Committee. Discusses the portraits stored in Burlington house - 'I discovered that we still had here no less than 20 portraits of presidents' - consulted with Hill and Egerton and agreed to move them to Monmouthshire. Regarding the books, has consulted a Professor Andrade who 'at once discovered a large number of books which ought to be removed...and...suspected his discoveries only represented a tithe of the valuable books still here'.
Extent2pp
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
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