Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Leonard Blaikie, Secretary, National Physical LAboratory Committee, 32 Abingdon Street, Westminster, S.W. Blaikie's letter of the 22nd October was laid before the Council of the Royal Society at their last meeting, when it was resolved to appoint Lord Kelvin [William Thomson] and Professor Oliver Lodge to give evidence before the Committee on the question of the desirability of establishing a National Physical Laboratory. 3 November 1897