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RefNoNLB/57/135
AltRefNoNLB/57p74
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonel HG [Henry George] Lyons, FRS, [Chairman of the Gassiot Committee]
Date29 July 1919
DescriptionAdvises Sir [William] Napier Shaw, [FRS], has written to the Royal Society about the proposal to make arrangements for observing and photographing aurora in connection to Amundsen's polar expedition. SirNapier Shaw advises that the Gassiot Committee might be of assistance in the matter, but Harrison does not think it would be possible to have a meeting of the Gassiot Committee before the vacation, and mentions he himself has been ordered on sick leave and will start his leave the following Monday. Aks how the matter should be dealt with.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6939Lyons; Sir; Henry George (1864 - 1944); geologist and museum director1864 - 1944
NA7142Shaw; Sir; William Napier (1854 - 1945)1854 - 1945
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