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RefNoNLB/6/477
AltRefNoNLB/6 p198
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain [William de Wiveleslie] Abney, Fellow of the Royal Society
Date19 May 1892
DescriptionEncloses a cheque for £60 from the Council Fund of the Government Grant for the Colour Vision Committee and asks for return of the accompanying form [not attached]. Rix recently sent on a letter from Admiralty, he has no reports to send them. A letter comes from the Board of Trade today asking for six reports; Rix only has two of them in house. Rix hopes Abney ordered the plates for the new hundred, Rix ordered the text on the same day that he received Abney's instruction.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6454Abney; Sir; William de Wiveleslie (1843 - 1920)1843 - 1920
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