Record

Reference numberNLB/15
Alternative reference numberNLB/15
LevelFile
TitleNew Letter Book volume 15, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration
Date3 June 1897-11 January 1898
DescriptionNew Letter Book volume 15 containing carbon copies of outgoing Royal Society correspondence. Subjects are general administrative, including material on committees, refereeing and printing of papers, soirees and other annual routines.

Primary authors: Assistant Secretary, Robert William Frederick Harrison; Secretary, Michael Foster.

Primary recipients: George Howard Darwin; William Turner Thiselton-Dyer; Foreign Office; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Harrison and Sons; India Office; Edwin Ray Lankester; Lord Joseph Lister; Robarts, Lubbock & Company;Professor Edward Albert-Sharpey Schafer; Her Majesty's Treasury.

Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter.
Extent500p comprising 897 letters
FormatCarbon
Manuscript
Physical descriptionVolume half-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding.
DimensionsHeight 44(cm), width 29(cm).
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8225Glazebrook; Sir; Richard Tetley (1854 - 1935)1854 - 1935
NA7968Thiselton-Dyer; Sir; William Turner (1843 - 1928); botanist1843 - 1928
NA8198Darwin; Sir; George Howard (1845 - 1912); mathematician and geophysicist1845 - 1912
NA8247Lankester; Sir; Edwin Ray (1847 - 1929); zoologist1847 - 1929
NA8069Lister; Joseph (1827 - 1912); 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis; surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery1827 - 1912
NA8017Sharpey-Schafer; Sir; Edward Albert (1850 - 1935)1850 - 1935
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