Reference number | NLB/22/235 |
Alternative reference number | NLB/22 p141 |
Level | Item |
Title | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to David H Ray, Columbia University, New York City, USA |
Date | 28 March 1901 |
Description | The Astronomer Royal is not able to provide any information regarding the instruments [used by Mason and Dixon in America in around 1767] other than what is already in 'Philosophical Transactions [of the Royal Society]'. The Astronomer Royal states he believes a Mr J H Gore of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey has written on Mason and Dixon, and may know something of the instruments. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Carbon |
Physical description | Typescript |
Access status | Open |