Record

RefNoNLB/45/260
AltRefNoNLB/45 p156
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Surgeon General G F H Evatt CB
Date26 January 1912
Description'Replying to your card of enquiry, the date of the paper by the [Real] Samuel Evatt to which you refer is 1762: it is published in the Philosophical Transactions [of the Royal Society] B Vol 52, page 544, & is accompanied by an illustration plate. It was communicated to the Society by Benjamin Franklin.
Mr Evatt was not a Fellow of the Society, so we have no information about him, other than that [?] above.'
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
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