Record

RefNoNLB/62/239
AltRefNoNLB/62 p135
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [James Hopwood] Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society
Date9 January 1922
DescriptionWrites to James Hopwood Jeans on several matters, namely: that Mr. [William Bate] Hardy has sent in a paper by himself and Ida Doubleday, 'Boundary lubricatin - the paraffin series', that Government Grant applications for 1922 amount to just over £6900, that Harrisons [& Sons] are pressing [Henry] Forster Morley for a large payment on the account of printing and the Treasurer suggests selling out War Stock, and that there is another Trust Fund family quarell, with the brother of the later [Percival] Spencer [Umfreville] Pickering alleging mal-administration of Trust Funds and demanding £1000.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
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