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Authorised form of nameRivers; William Halse Rivers (1864 - 1922)
Dates1864 - 1922
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLuton, near Chatham, Kent, England
Date of birth12 March 1864
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death04/06/1922
ActivityEducation:
MA; MD
Memberships:
FRCP
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1908
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1915
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (MP)
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1923-1924 vol 95 pp xliii-xlvii, plate, signed by H H
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/18018532
Royal Society codeNA1257
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/Maull/003835Rivers, William Halse Riversnd
NLB/23/1/602Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr William Halse Rivers Rivers, [Fellow of the Royal Society], St John's College, Cambridge10 December 1901
NLB/27/98Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr William Halse Rivers Rivers, [Fellow of the Royal Society], St Johns College, Cambridge30 June 1903
NLB/39/640Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons18 February 1909
NLB/39/643Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons18 February 1909
NLB/62/917Copy letter from [Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to the Editor of 'The Morning Post'7 June 1922
NLB/37/334Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Edward Arnold, 41 & 43 Maddox Street, W3 March 1908
NLB/37/871Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] Barlow, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1908
NLB/40/450Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William Halse Rivers] Rivers FRS9 June 1909
NLB/40/361Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William] H [Halse] R [Rivers] Rivers FRS, St John's College, Cambridge27 May 1909
NLB/40/554Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William] H [Halse] R [Rivers] Rivers FRS 25 June 1909
NLB/42/245Copy 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, SW29 April 1910
NLB/41/375Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr William Halse Rivers, Fellow of the Royal Society2 December 1909
NLB/44/723Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [Willaim] H [Halse] R [Rivers] Rivers FRS27 October 1911
NLB/52/366Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRS11 November 1915
NLB/52/335Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse11 November 1915
NLB/58/596Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [William Halse Rivers] Rivers, FRS28 May 1920
NLB/58/957Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [William Halse Rivers] Rivers, FRS9 July 1920
RR/18/111Referee's report by William Halse Rivers, on a paper 'A confusion-test for colour-blindness' by George James BurchFebruary 1912
RR/20/105Referee's report by William Halse Rivers, on a paper 'Negative after-images and successive contrast with pure spectral colours' by Alfred William Porter and F W Edridge-GreenApril 1913
NLB/57/448Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr WHR [William Halse Rivers] Rivers, FRS10 November 1919
NLB/57/545Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr WHR [William Halse Rivers] Rivers, FRS1 December 1919
NLB/57/613Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr WHR [William Halse River] Rivers, FRS16 December 1919
NLB/63/32Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, FRS15 June 1922
EC/1908/14Rivers, William Halse Rivers: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/52/329Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Deputy Master of the [Royal] Mint11 November 1915
RR/19/46Referee's report by William Halse Rivers Rivers, on a paper 'Trichromic vision and anomalous trichromatism' by F W Edridge-Green[December 1912]
NLB/56/338Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Henry Balfour Esquire, FRS15 January 1919
NLB/56/341Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable Lord Milner16 January 1919
MC/30/159Letter from the Keeper of the Privy Purse, Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace, S.W, to The Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, W16 November 1915
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