| RefNo | MM/13/128 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from E Russell to J W Lubbock |
| Date | [1835] |
| Description | Including certain tables calculated by Rusell.
No date on letter. From internal evidence, it appears the letter is the one referred to by Lubbock at the meeting of the Excise Committee on 7 November 1835.
"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 |
| RelatedMaterial | See Excise Committee Book, CMB/67 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7010 | Lubbock; Sir; John William (1803 - 1865) | 1803 - 1865 |