Reference number | MS/251/12 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from Humphry Davy, Cobham Hall, to William Buckland, Oxford |
Date | 22 November [postmark 21 November 1822] |
Description | Davy has pleasure in informing Buckland that he has been awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal, 'for your excellent paper' [ 'Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones...discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821...']. He hopes to deliver the medal to Buckland on 30 November at 12 o' clock, when he will congratulate Buckland in the presence of the Society. |
Extent | 2p. |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | On paper |
Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8200 | Davy; Sir; Humphry (1778 - 1829); chemist | 1778 - 1829 |