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Reference numberNLB/3/121
Alternative reference numberNLB/3 p75
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker
Date20 March 1889
Description'Dear Sir,
A box has arrived from the US Geodetic Survey Office containing (according to letters of advice) a barometer & thermometers which were with the Kater pendulums when they were sent to Professor Peirce. I am instructed by the President to ask you whether this box is to be sent on to Greenwich or to be opened here.
I am, faithfully yours
Herbert Rix
Asst Sec RS [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6271Walker; James Thomas (1826 - 1896)1826 - 1896
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