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RefNoNLB/12/600
AltRefNoNLB/12 p336
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Charles Vernon Boys, Harold Baily Dixon, Rev Frederick John Smith and Professor William Cawthorne Unwin
Date20 March 1896
Description'Dear [blank space],
The President and Council of the Royal Society having received from the Home Office a letter conveying the thanks of the Secretary of State to the Society for the assistance "so courteously rendered in the prosecution of the enquiry" into certain matters connected with cylinders for compressed gases, desire, in their turn, to express to you their very warm thanks for the trouble you have taken in the matter, and to assure you that the thanks given to the Society really belongs to you and your colleagues.
I am, yours truly,
(signed) M. Foster
Sec. R.S. [Secretary, Royal Society]'.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
PhysicalDescriptionTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8138Boys; Sir; Charles Vernon (1855 - 1944)1855 - 1944
NA8203Dixon; Harold Baily (1852 - 1930)1852 - 1930
NA2211Smith; Frederick John (1848 - 1911)1848 - 1911
NA6842Unwin; William Cawthorne (1838 - 1933)1838 - 1933
NA8220Foster; Sir; Michael (1836 - 1907); physiologist1836 - 1907
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