| RefNo | MC/7/75 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Henry James, Colonel Royal Engineers, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, to the Secretary of the Royal Society |
| Date | 23 May 1864 |
| Description | Requesting one of the Society's standard metres for the purposes of comparing standards of length across Europe. This relates to the triangulation of the United Kingdom. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/7/77 |
| MC/7/79 |
| MC/7/90 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2879 | James; Sir; Henry (1803 - 1877); surveyor | 1803 - 1877 |