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RefNoNLB/52/859
AltRefNoNLB/52 p487
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Ellis Thomas Powell Esquire; the Financial News, 111 Queen Victoria Street, E.C.
Date3 March 1916
DescriptionContests Ellis Thomas Powell's notion that economic science does not come within the purview of the Royal Society. Notes that while recently the Society has had few candidates, economists have been elected as Fellows in the past, citing Adam Smith and [William] Stanley Jevons as examples.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA596Smith; Adam (1723 - 1790)1723 - 1790
NA6360Jevons; William Stanley (1835 - 1882); economist1835 - 1882
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