| RefNo | MM/13/127 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Clayton Freeling, Excise Office, to J W Lubbock |
| Date | c.1830s |
| Description | No date. The letter appears to come from the period of the composition of the Royal Society's Excise Committee. In the letter, Freeling comments that "we have not been able to give you our observations upon the gauges"
"The Excise Committee [of the Royal Society] worked in response to a request from the Treasury: its task was to devise a simple and practicable form of hydrometer to be used by excisemen in assesing the duty on spirits, wine and beer, and thus it duly did, to the complete satisfaction of the Treasury", M Boas-Hall, 'All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century', Cambridge: CUP, 1984, pp168. |
| Extent | 2 sides |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7010 | Lubbock; Sir; John William (1803 - 1865) | 1803 - 1865 |