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Reference numberNLB/71/733
Alternative reference numberNLB/71 p376
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editor, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 80 Regents Street, W1
Date17 October 1928
DescriptionInforms the Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to expect permission to reproduce plate 6 from Transactions A.197 ['Total eclipse of the Sun, January 22, 1898.—Observations at Viziadrug'] and figure 2 p.284 from Transactions B.198. Corrects that the authors for the former reference are Sir [Joseph] Norman Lockyer, Chaptain Chisholm-Batten and Prof. [Alexander] Pedler, not [Alfred] Fowler. Explains the consent of Prof. [Thomas] Mather will need to be sort to reproduce figure 4 p.470 in Transactions A.207. ['A new current weigher and a determination of the electromotive force of the normal Weston cadmium cell'].
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Related materialhttps://doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1899.0098
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1908.0012
Related records in the catalogueNLB/71/745
NLB/71/745
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA2863Pedler; Sir; Alexander (1849 - 1918)1849 - 1918
NA6349Lockyer; Sir; Joseph Norman (1836 - 1920)1836 - 1920
NA1288Mather; Thomas (1856 - 1937); engineer1856 - 1937
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