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RefNoMC/12/140
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Robert Hall, Admiralty, to [William Spottiswoode], President of the Royal Society, Burlington House
CreatorHall; Vice-Admiral; Robert (1817-1882); British Royal Navy officer
Date13 January 1881
DescriptionRegretfully denying the Society's and Sir Wyville Thomson's application to use a small vessel for deep-sea investigations near the North coast of Scotland.

[For Wyville Thomson's initial correspondence and the Society's reply, see related records.]
[The second page is on a separate paper, labelled MC/12/140a within the volume.]
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/12/108
MS/427/85
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7690Spottiswoode; William (1825 - 1883)1825 - 1883
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