RefNo | MM/11/87 |
Level | Item |
Title | Extract from the minutes of the Council of the Royal Society of 18 June 1840, calling for the establishment of a magnetical and meteorological observatory "in the neighbourhood of London", signed J W Lubbock |
Date | March 1845 |
Description | MM/11/87-90 are written in the same hand and appear to be by G B Airy who was concerned about the effect on the Greenwich Observatory of attempts to build a new observatory for magnetical observations. |
Extent | 1 side |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7010 | Lubbock; Sir; John William (1803 - 1865) | 1803 - 1865 |
NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |