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Reference numberNLB/42/245
Alternative reference numberNLB/42 p151
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from John Rose Bradford, Secretary RS [Secretary of the Royal Society] to Sir H Llewellyn Smith, KBC, Permanent Secretary, Marine Department of the Board of Trade, 7 Whitehall Gardens, SW
Date29 April 1910
DescriptionSmith's letter of the 20th instant was laid before the President and Council of the Royal Society; Bradford is directed to suggest the following names of gentlemen they consider specially qualified to take part in the enquiry into vision tests in force under the regulations of the Board of Trade:

The Right Hon Lord Rayleigh, KCB, FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society.
Sir William W de W Abney, KCB, FRS.
Prof J [John] H [Henry] Poynting, DSc, FRS.
Prof Arthur Schuster, FRS.
Mr William McDougall, MB, BC.
Prof Francis Gotch, DSc, FRS.
Dr W [William] H [Halse] R [Rivers] Rivers, FRCP, FRS.
Prof C [Charles] S [Scott] Sherrington, Md, ScD, FRS.
Prof E [Ernest] H [Henry] Starling, Md, FRCP, FRS.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1395Bradford; Sir; John Rose (1863 - 1935); physician and physiologist1863 - 1935
NA7852Poynting; John Henry (1852 - 1914)1852 - 1914
NA6483Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist1851 - 1934
NA7996McDougall; William (1871 - 1938); psychologist1871 - 1938
NA6228Gotch; Francis (1853 - 1913)1853 - 1913
NA1257Rivers; William Halse Rivers (1864 - 1922)1864 - 1922
NA8281Sherrington; Sir; Charles Scott (1857 - 1952); physiologist1857 - 1952
NA7857Starling; Ernest Henry (1866 - 1927); physiologist1866 - 1927
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