| Reference number | NLB/56/341 |
| Alternative reference number | NLB/56 p201 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Milner |
| Date | 16 January 1919 |
| Description | Informs Lord Milner that plans for the expedition to Uganda to study the 'ethnology of the native races of that region', funded by Mr. P. Jeffrey Mackie and under the direction of Reverend John Roscoe, are now going ahead. Informs Lord Milner that the Society has appointed a Committee to administer Mr. Mackie's fund and asks if he would consent to serve as a member of this Committee. Notes that the expedition may help facilitate the task of the British Government to obtain 'a more accurate knowledge of native ideas and customs'. Provides names of the other members of the Committee: Mr. Walter [Hume] Long, Sir James [George] Frazer, Dr. [Arthur] Keith, Dr. [Alfred Cort] Haddon, Professor [Grafton] Elliot Smith, Dr. [William Halse Rivers] Rivers and Mr. [William Bate] Hardy. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Carbon |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA871 | Long; Walter Hume (1854 - 1924); 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall | 1854 - 1924 |
| NA695 | Frazer; Sir; James George (1854 - 1941) | 1854 - 1941 |
| NA7000 | Keith; Sir; Arthur (1866 - 1955); museum curator and palaeoanthropologist | 1866 - 1955 |
| NA6614 | Haddon; Alfred Cort (1855 - 1940); anthropologist and ethnologist | 1855 - 1940 |
| NA3577 | Smith; Sir; Grafton Elliot (1871 - 1937); anatomist and anthropologist | 1871 - 1937 |
| NA1257 | Rivers; William Halse Rivers (1864 - 1922) | 1864 - 1922 |
| NA8234 | Hardy; Sir; William Bate (1864 - 1934); biologist and food scientist | 1864 - 1934 |