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Reference numberMS/251/12
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Humphry Davy, Cobham Hall, to William Buckland, Oxford
Date22 November [postmark 21 November 1822]
DescriptionDavy 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.
Extent2p.
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionOn paper
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8200Davy; Sir; Humphry (1778 - 1829); chemist1778 - 1829
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