| RefNo | MC/5/84 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Francis Higginson, 2 Marine Place, Dover, to S [Samuel] Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society, Somerset House, London |
| Date | 24 February 1853 |
| Description | Responding vehemently to Christie's remarks on Higginson's delivery of meteoric stone specimens to the Society and accompanying writing. Higginson reiterates his observations and scientific opinions and repeatedly rebuffs accusations and criticisms made by Christie. Higginson also requests confirmation that his paper on the causes of [magnetic] attraction were not communicated to the Society in 1835.
[The letter is over two papers, the second of which is marked MC/5/84a within the volume.] |
| Extent | 7p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0095 |
| RelatedRecord | MC/5/89 |
| MC/5/97 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8168 | Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician | 1784 - 1865 |