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RefNoNLB/32/312
AltRefNoNLB/32 p163
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Secretary to His Majesty's Treasury
Date16 February 1906
DescriptionLists eight enclosed documents [not included] relating to the proposed revision of the primary triangulation on which the Ordnance Survey is held. Includes letters and memoranda from Sir George Darwin, Major E H Hills, Professor Friedrich Robert Helmert, General Bassot, and Major Close, as well as an extract from the Report of Eigth International Geographic Congress, and a preliminary note on the reassessment of the Geodetic Arcs in the United Kingdom by Close and Hills.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
PhysicalDescriptionTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8198Darwin; Sir; George Howard (1845 - 1912); mathematician and geophysicist1845 - 1912
NA377Helmert; Friedrich Robert (1843 - 1917)1843 - 1917
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