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RefNoNLB/44/143
AltRefNoNLB/44 p96
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Major E [Edmond] H [Herbert] Hills FRS
Date16 May 1911
Description'We have received the enclosed letter from the India Office, covering a request for the loan of a prism used by Mr Evershed in his Spanish Eclipse Expedition of 1905. Inasmuch as the prism appears to belong to the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, I am directed to forward the application to you and to ask that the Committee may deal with it.
I am informing the India Office of the course we have taken.'
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6941Grove-Hills; Edmond Herbert (1864 - 1922)1864 - 1922
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