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Reference numberNLB/14/376
Alternative reference numberNLB/14 p211
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society
Date26 February 1897
DescriptionThe Secretaries have desired Harrison to forward the accompanying paper by Mr [Francis Cranmer] Penrose [not attached], on the orientation of Greek Temples, and to ask Darwin's opinion as chairman of the Sectional Committee for Mathematics, as to its suitability for the '[Philosophical] Transactions' and as to the desirability of publishing an abstract of it in the 'Proceedings [of the Royal Society]'. The abstract is promised by the author.
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Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8198Darwin; Sir; George Howard (1845 - 1912); mathematician and geophysicist1845 - 1912
NA2786Penrose; Francis Cranmer (1817 - 1903)1817 - 1903
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