RefNo | MC/12/207 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to [William] Spottiswoode, [President of the Royal Society] |
Creator | Huggins; Sir; William (1824-1910); British astronomer |
Date | 17 October 1881 |
Description | Regarding an inconvenient construction of the Society's telescope that Huggins has currently. It relates to the simultaneous mounting of the reflector and the achromatic on the stand. Huggins proposed a possible repair of this issue to Mr Grubb.
[The letter covers three papers, labelled MC/12/207-MC/12/207b within the volume.] |
Extent | 6p |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7376 | Huggins; Sir; William (1824 - 1910); astronomer | 1824 - 1910 |
NA7690 | Spottiswoode; William (1825 - 1883); mathematician and physicist | 1825 - 1883 |