| Reference number | NLB/47/491 |
| Alternative reference number | NLB/47 p290 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill FRS |
| Date | 7 February 1913 |
| Description | 'Many thanks for your letter of the 5th instant about the mode of voting in Council. Your suggested plan would be quite easy to carry out, and I should think, a time-saving device, if applied to a list of reasonable length selected from the full list of candidates; but I cannot help thinking that it would prove cumbersome in practice if we tried to apply it to such a list as we have to deal with in the complete list of candidates this year. That would mean collecting from the Council 126 printed lists which would have to be sorted according to their section of the alphabet and them spread out in six rows of twenty-one each on a large table before the votes could be counted; that is if I understand your method alright. If we were dealing with only (say) twenty names, which might be selected at the next Council for the final voting at the succeeding Council, it would of course be a simple matter; but have the opportunity of check the counting by the officials as they have under the old system. If you agree to applying the method to a selected list we would put slips in hand immediately after next Council.' |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Carbon |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | MC/28/144 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1375 | Hill; Micaiah John Muller (1856 - 1929); mathematician | 1856 - 1929 |