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RefNoNLB/68/325
AltRefNoNLB/68 p176
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Edward] Armstrong, FRS
Date18 June 1925
DescriptionInforms Professor [Henry Edward] Armstrong that there are four obituaries he promised to write in 1920 (those of Dr [Rudolf] Messel, Professor [John] Perry, Dr [Percival Spencer Umfreville] Pickering) and one from 1923 (Sir James Dewar) that have still not been written. Asks Armstrong to write them before November.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8105Armstrong; Henry Edward (1848 - 1937); chemist and educationalist1848 - 1937
NA1562Messel; Rudolf (1848 - 1920)1848 - 1920
NA5509Perry; John (1850 - 1920); electrical engineer and mathematician1850 - 1920
NA7012Pickering; Percival Spencer Umfreville (1858 - 1920)1858 - 1920
NA5870Dewar; Sir; James (1842 - 1923)1842 - 1923
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
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