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RefNoNLB/12/426
AltRefNoNLB/12 p231
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Drake & Gorham
Date18 February 1896
Description'Dear Sirs,
Prof. [Professor William Chandler] Roberts-Austen is to deliver the Bakerian Lecture on Thursday next. He will have some apparatus on a stand near our lantern, and a sufficient length of lead is required to carry round from along the floor or the pillars to the experimental table on the dias. Will you please send up a pair of small leads enough for the purpose. It will require at least 25 yards.
Yrs [Yours] truly,
H Rix
Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6451Roberts-Austen; Sir; William Chandler (1843 - 1902)1843 - 1902
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