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RefNoNLB/66/598
AltRefNoNLB/66 p330
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to H. Eustance Davies, Esq., Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, S.W.1
Date3 June 1924
DescriptionStates that the most suitable people nomintaed by the British Government to attend the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Madrid, October 1924 are; Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS and Sir Napier Shaw, FRS. Mentions that it is too far ahead to consider representatives for the International Geographical Congress in Cairo as it will take place next year.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordNLB/66/520
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7142Shaw; Sir; William Napier (1854 - 1945)1854 - 1945
NA6790Lenox-Conyngham; Sir; Gerald Ponsonby (1866 - 1956)1866 - 1956
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
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