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RefNoNLB/35/601
AltRefNoNLB/35 p377
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TitleCopy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Dr John Rose Bradford, Fellow of the Royal Society
Date18 June 1907
DescriptionGeikie informs Bradford of the receipt from Lord Fitzmaurice, Chairman of the International Conference on Sleeping Sickness, of a request from Sir Edward Grey that the Royal Society nominate a representative. As the Council will not meet until 4 July, the President has decided to appoint Bradford. Geikie hopes he can attend the plenary meeting to be held at the Foreign Office the next day at 3pm. If he is unable to accept, he asks that Bradford be willing to hold the appointment until the Society can make other arrangements.

Geikie expresses his shock that an International Conference on Sleeping Sickness, convened in London, should have been arranged without informing the Society, who were only told after it had begun. A Colonial Office official has said that Bradford was at a meeting of the Advisory Colonial Office Committee at which it was discussed, and he asks if Bradford realised such a large convention was to be summoned, and suggests that Bradford would not have believed this was to be done without informing the Society.
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FormatCarbon
PhysicalDescriptionManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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