Record

RefNoMDA/A/21/34
AltRefNoA3.5
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from John David Griffith Davies to Sir Henry George Lyons, Trinity College, Cambridge
Date14 September 1939
DescriptionHaving settled at Cambridge the routine work of the [Royal] Society can proceed normally. Lists staff present in Cambridge. Has terminated two temporary female clerks and employed Miss Kaye to work on the Central Register. [Ronald] Winckworth, whose wife recently died, returns on Monday. Proposes changes to domestic and office staffing now that Burlington House is closed, and associated pay changes. The two Secretaries and Foreign Secretary have agreed that at the next Council meeting 19 October, they propose submitting a resolution securing the Society's employees against financial loss owing to their having undertaken full-time paid national service. Hopes April 'Notes and Records' has been received.
Extent3p
FormatTypescript copy
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialsee MDA/A/21/36
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6939Lyons; Sir; Henry George (1864 - 1944); geologist and museum director1864 - 1944
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