| Reference number | NLB/65/54 |
| Alternative reference number | NLB/65 p30-1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS |
| Date | 19 July 1923 |
| Description | Forwards extracts from Council meetings during the 1890s regarding the Colour Vision Committee: suggestions in 1890 that the President and Council should appoint a Committee to consider the subject of colour-blindness; the appoitment of the Committee in 1890 (the President, Captain [William de Wiveleslie] Abney, Professor A. H. [Arthur Harry or Arthur Herbert?] Church, Professor [Michael] Foster, Mr [Francis] Galton, Dr [William] Pole, Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], and Mr Brudenell Cater); printing the Report of the Colour Vision Committee in the Proceedings in 1892; links to the Board of Trade; carrying out the recommendations contained in the Report. Informs Rayleigh that [Dr Frederick William] Edridge Green periodically expresses grievance in the Medical Press at the Report's findings and a certain section he alleges was taken by the Royal Society as a consequence of that report. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Carbon |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA6454 | Abney; Sir; William de Wiveleslie (1843 - 1920) | 1843 - 1920 |
| NA7877 | Strutt; Robert John (1875 - 1947); 4th Baron Rayleigh; experimental physicist | 1875 - 1947 |
| NA8220 | Foster; Sir; Michael (1836 - 1907); physiologist | 1836 - 1907 |
| NA7708 | Galton; Sir; Francis (1822 - 1911); statistician, human geneticist and eugenicist | 1822 - 1911 |
| NA8271 | Pole; William (1814 - 1900) | 1814 - 1900 |