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Reference numberNLB/41/763
Alternative reference numberNLB/41 p464
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society
Date22 February 1910
DescriptionLast July Mrs Tyndall, in pursuance of a wish expressed by the late Professor [John] Tyndall, entrusted to the Royal Society the sum of £1000 to be administered at the discretion of President and Council for the purpose of encouraging research in all matters pertaining to mining, and it has now been referred to a Committee consisting of Sir Archibald Geikie, Professor Harold Baily Dixon, Dr Ernest Howard Griffiths, Dr John Scott Haldane, and Dr Aubrey Strahan, with the Secretary of the Institution of Mining Engineers, Sir Henry Cunynghame, Professor John Cadman, and Mr W E Garforth to prepare a scheme.

President and Council hopes they will be willing to serve on the Committee.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Physical descriptionTypescript
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7894Larmor; Sir; Joseph (1857 - 1942); physicist1857 - 1942
NA8203Dixon; Harold Baily (1852 - 1930); chemist and amateur footballer1852 - 1930
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