| RefNo | NLB/41/282 |
| AltRefNo | NLB/41 p184 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Date | 15 November 1909 |
| Description | Harrison finds from Rigaud's Historical essay on the First Publication of Newton's Principia that the publication referred to as having cost the Royal Society so many money as to exhuast the funds, thus preventing the Society from extending the pecuniary aid to the publication of the Principia, was Willughby's History of Fishes. A copy of this book is in the Library. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Carbon |
| PhysicalDescription | Typescript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/24/28 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8247 | Lankester; Sir; Edwin Ray (1847 - 1929); zoologist | 1847 - 1929 |