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Reference numberNLB/39/127
Alternative reference numberNLB/39 p81
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Archibald Geikie to W D Barber, Secretary to the Board of Visitors, Admiralty
Date1 December 1908
Description'Dear Sir,
Your letter of 26th ult[imo] to Lord Rayleigh on the subject of the vacancy in the Board of Visitors of Greenwich Observatory was not in time to reach him before he left for South Africa and it has accordingly passed into my hands to deal with as his successor in the Presidency of the Royal Society. I wish to appoint Prof[essor] Schauster, FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society] of Hart House, Victoria Park, Manchester. He is at present abroad but I believe he will have returned to the country long before the Council meeting of the Board of Visitors.'
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6174Geikie; Sir; Archibald (1835 - 1924); geologist and historian1835 - 1924
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist1842 - 1919
NA6483Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist1851 - 1934
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