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Reference numberNLB/23/2/461
Alternative reference numberNLB/23/2 p422-423
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter sent from Joseph Larmor and Archibald Geikie, to Sir Walter Prideaux, Goldsmiths Hall
Date21 March 1904
DescriptionTheir letter regarding the offer of the Worship Company of Goldsmiths to institute a Fund in connection with the Royal Society for the investigation of the properties of radium, was considered by President and Council.

Council concluded that the Grant of £1000 would be more useful if the usual publicity was avoided, and so have entrusted the President and the Chairman of the Radium Committee with its distribution.

Encloses two resolutions, including a scheme for the administration of the Fund.
Extent2p
FormatCarbon
Physical descriptionTypescript
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7894Larmor; Sir; Joseph (1857 - 1942); physicist1857 - 1942
NA6174Geikie; Sir; Archibald (1835 - 1924); geologist and historian1835 - 1924
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