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RefNoNLB/17/153
AltRefNoNLB/17 p104-107
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Michael Foster, to the Secretary to Her Majesty's Treasury, Whitehall, S.W.
Date28 July 1898
DescriptionProvides a list of recommended recipients, both individuals and institutions, to which the Royal Society desire to make presentations of surplus volumes of the 'Challenger' report. A large number of volumes are recommended in favour of individuals. The names of these gentlemen in connection with which the authors of the volumes recommended have been consulted as far as possible, have been chosen with a special view to the gifts being useful for the furtherance of scientific investigation in the subject dealt with in the volumes presented. The presentation of the narrative is recommended in five cases only.
Extent4p
FormatCarbon
PhysicalDescriptionTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8220Foster; Sir; Michael (1836 - 1907); physiologist1836 - 1907
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