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Reference numberNLB/62/779
Alternative reference numberNLB/62 p434
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Horace] Lamb, FRS
Date4 May 1922
DescriptionInforms Professor [Horace] Lamb that [Godfrey Harold] Hardy has declined to write the obituary of [George Ballard] Mathews, and has suggested W. E. H. Berwick instead. Notes that Berwick is not a Fellow, and asks what Professor Lamb thinks of this course. Also informing that Dr. [William] Bell Dawson has got [Frank Dawson] Adams to communuicate his paper, 'Harmonic tidal constants for standard ports of reference in Canada', which leaves Professor Lamb free to act as a referee.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
NA8246Lamb; Sir; Horace (1849 - 1934)1849 - 1934
NA170Mathews; George Ballard (1861 - 1922)1861 - 1922
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