Record

RefNoMS/756/58
LevelItem
TitleDraft letter from Michael Foster, Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to G M Whipple, assistant secretary, Observatory, Kew
Date25 May 1882
DescriptionReplies to a letter regarding an application for a grant of £400 for the instruments necessary for the proposed magnetic observation at the Cape of Good Hope, and informs the application will come before the grant committee in November, and that no action can be taken before then. States that at the appropriate time the grant committee should be made fully acquainted with the details of the expenditure for which the money is asked.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionPaper
AccessStatusOpen
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