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Authorised form of nameHickson; Sydney John (1859 - 1940)
Dates1859 - 1940
NationalityBritish
Place of birthHighgate, London, England
Date of birth25 June 1859
Place of deathCambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Date of death06/02/1940
OccupationZoologist
Research fieldGenetics
Systematics
Embryology
Morphology
Zoology
ActivityEducation:
Early education received at home; grammar school in Leatherhead; DSc (Lond); MA (Cantab); Hon MA (Oxon)
Career: Took up a post in Oxford as assistant and demonstrator with Henry Nottidge Moseley (FRS 1877) (1881); Travelled in the Malay archipelago (1885–1886); worked at London in Ray Lankester’s laboratory (FRS 1875) (1887); Lecturer in Advanced Zoology, Cambridge (1890); appointed Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester (1894); collected specimens of coral; retired from his post in Manchester (1926); returned to Cambridge and lectured undergraduates on coelenterates and continued his research (1926).
Memberships:
FZS
President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (1915-1917)
President of the Manchester Microscopical Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election13/06/1895
Age at election36
ProposerEdward Bagnall Poulton; Edward Emmanuel Klein; Edwin Ray Lankester; Raphael Meldola
Arthur Milnes Marshall; John Lubbock; Bartholomew Price; Edward Burnet Tylor; Thomas Henry Huxley; Alexander Henry Green; Robert Bellamy Clifton; William Henry Flower; Adam Sedgwick; John Newport Langley; Walter Holbrook Gaskell; Alexander Macalister
Edward Albert Schafer; George Harley; Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther; Philip Lutley Sclater; Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; Philip Herbert Carpenter; Joseph Prestwich
RSActivityLectures:
Croonian 1916
RelationshipsParents:
PublishedWorksRCN 14608
OtherInfoEstablished zoology as a satisfactory subject of study in schools and universities in the United Kingdom.
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 837–838; 'Sydney J. Hickson – a life among corals' [URL: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/alumni/biographies-of-zoologists/sydney-j-hickson; last accessed: 21/02/2024]
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 383-394, plate, by J Stanley Gardiner
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/64766983
CodeNA1402
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1895/11Hickson, Sydney John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/002086Hickson, Sydney Johnnd
NLB/1/733Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sydney John Hickson, Downing College, Cambridge19 November 1887
NLB/7/770Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph Prestwich, Fellow of the Royal Society24 April 1893
NLB/20/577Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Sydney J Hickson24 May 1900
NLB/11/278Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster23 May 1895
NLB/28/413Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, The Owens College, Manchester3 March 1904
NLB/11/276Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Secretary, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, S.W.24 May 1895
NLB/11/331Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Sydney John Hickson, Ellesmere House, Wilmslow Road, Fallowfield, Manchester5 June 1895
NLB/14/703Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons30 April 1897
NLB/13/594Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]13 October 1896
NLB/13/633Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney Johnson Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society22 October 1896
NLB/38New Letter Book volume 38, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 June 1908-12 November 1908
NLB/37New Letter Book volume 37, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 January 1908-1 June 1908
NLB/16/166Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Hickson15 February 1898
RR/15/368Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'The development of echinus esculentus together with some points in the development of E. Miliaris and E. Acutus' by Ernest William MacBrideMay 1902
RR/16/288Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on two papers 'A biometrical study of conjugation in paramecium' by Raymond Pearl and 'The growth of the oocyte in antedon: A morphological study in the cell-metabolism' by Gilbert C Chubb8 May 1906
NLB/16/165Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[15 February 1898]
NLB/20/302Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society16 March 1900
NLB/52/342Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor Sydney John Hickson, FRS12 November 1915
NLB/19/670Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society21 November 1899
NLB/20/57Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society23 January 1900
NLB/20/593Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1900
NLB/24/617Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society 9 June 1902
NLB/37/745Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson7 May 1908
NLB/36/388Copy letter from A H White, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Ellesmere House, Washington, Manchester24 October 1907
NLB/27/678Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney Johnson Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1903
NLB/24/601Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society6 June 1902
NLB/36/226Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society24 September 1907
NLB/27/127Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society7 July 1903
NLB/26/655Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society6 May 1903
NLB/29/257Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society24 August 1904
NLB/38/34Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society4 June 1908
NLB/27/867Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society15 December 1903
NLB/34/612Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society15 February 1907
NLB/32/328Copy letter from Sir Archibald Geikie, to Professor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, [Fellow of the Royal Society]21 February 1906
NLB/32/399Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee5 March 1906
NLB/33/122Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Manchester2 July 1906
NLB/32/457Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Committee13 March 1906
NLB/33/152Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society 6 July 1906
NLB/34/34Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Richard Threlfall, Fellow of the Royal Society, George Forbes, Fellow of the Royal Society, Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1906
NLB/33/580Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Committee3 October 1906
NLB/32/737Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Ellesmere House, Withington, Manchester18 May 1906
NLB/33/610Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney Johnson Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society8 October 1906
NLB/33/872Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee15 November 1906
NLB/32/801Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society28 May 1906
NLB/35/315Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Secretary, Royal Society14 May 1907
NLB/35/487Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee5 June 1907
NLB/35/486Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Committee4 June 1907
NLB/35/672Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee1 July 1907
NLB/35/714Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1907
NLB/38/61Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Ellesmere House, Withington, Manchester[June 1908]
NLB/37/193Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney John] Hickson FRS13 February 1908
NLB/38/69Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society12 June 1908
NLB/36/740Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society10 December 1907
NLB/37/63Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson FRS17 January 1908
NLB/37/71Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney John] Hickson FRS20 January 1908
NLB/37/173Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee7 February 1908
NLB/37/48Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson FRS, Chairman of the Sectional Committee for Zoology16 January 1908
NLB/37/358Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sidney John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society7 March 1908
NLB/37/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee. 28 February 1908
NLB/37/714Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society4 May 1908
NLB/37/360Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Sidney] J [John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society7 March 1908
NLB/37/461Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society24 March 1908
NLB/37/406Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sidney] J [John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee14 March 1908
NLB/37/883Copy Letter from Archibald Geikie to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson29 May 1908
NLB/37/699Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Archibald Geikie, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary of the Royal Society4 May 1908
NLB/37/686Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson1 May 1908
NLB/38/142Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1908
NLB/37/710Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C G Hewitt5 May 1908
NLB/39/231Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society15 December 1908
NLB/38/226Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee2 July 1908
NLB/38/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee13 July 1908
NLB/39/430Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Sidney Frederick] Harmer, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January 1909
NLB/38/480Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society10 August 1908
NLB/38/601Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society7 October 1908
NLB/38/771Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1908
NLB/44/140Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson FRS 16 May 1911
NLB/43/632Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society28 February 1911
NLB/44/279Copy letter from John Rose Bradford to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson6 June 1911
NLB/43/532Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society3 February 1911
NLB/43/579Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society15 February 1911
NLB/43/627Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society27 February 1911
NLB/43/641Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society1 March 1911
NLB/45/249Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson FRS26 January 1912
NLB/53/308Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS06 July 1916
NLB/45/496Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson FRS15 March 1912
NLB/47/331 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sidney] J [John] Hickson FRS, the University, Manchester17 January 1913
NLB/52/295Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor Sydney John Hickson, FRS3 November 1915
RR/16/133Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'The oocyte of Tomopteris' by Mr Wallace25 July 1903
RR/20/161Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'On a remarkable new type of protistan parasite' by H M Woodcock and G Lapage7 June 1913
NLB/52/602Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Sydney John Hickson, FRS27 January 1916
NLB/52/894Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Vice President of the Royal Society; to Professor Sydney John Hickson, FRS; Ellesmere House, Withington, Manchester7 March 1916
RR/19/90Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'A note on the protozoa from sick soils, with some account of the life-cycle of a flagellate monad' by C H Martin[May 1912]
NLB/53/296Copy letter from [William Bate] Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS30 June 1916
NLB/53/146Copy letter from [William Bate] Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS 9 May 1916
NLB/54/195Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS1 March 1917
NLB/53/162Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS12 May 1916
NLB/53/255Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS15 June 1916
RR/9/149Referee's report by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on a paper 'On the ciliated groove (siphonoglyphe) in the stomodaeum of the alcyonarians' by Sydney John Hickson12 June 1883
RR/13/89Referee's report by Sydney Hickson, on a paper 'Microscopic and systematic study of madreporarian types of corals' by Maria M Ogilvie3 October 1895
RR/17/193Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'Some points in the development of Ophiothrix fragilis' by Ernest William MacBride[May 1907]
RR/12/355Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'The development of Asterina gibbosa' by Ernest William MacBride27 May 1895
RR/12/363Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'On the origin of the triradiate spicules of Leucosolenia' by Edward Alfred Minchin11 June 1895
RR/14/163Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'Polytremacis and the ancestry of Helioporidae' by John Walter Gregorynd [December 1899]
NLB/67/139Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS1 November 1924
RR/14/252Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'Upon the development of the enamel in certain osseous fish' by Charles Sissmore Tomesnd [January 1900]
RR/39/23Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'Studies in tunicate development. Part I.— General physiology development of simple Ascidians' by Norman John Berrill[February 1929]
RR/30/66Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'Colony-formation in astroeid corals' by [George] Matthai[October 1924]
NLB/68/315Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS19 June 1925
NLB/70/661Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS21 June 1927
NLB/69/837Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Sydney John] Hickson FRS29 October 1926
NLB/70/553Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS17 May 1927
NLB/70/412Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson, FRS25 March 1927
NLB/11/571Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society25 July 1895
NLB/16/349Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Sydney J Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society21 March 1898
NLB/33/251Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Ellesmere House, Withington23 July 1906
NLB/33/716Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to; Augustus Desire Waller, Lord Avebury [John Lubbock], Sir Benjamin Baker, Dr Henry Frederick Baker, Professor David Ferrier, Professor Sydney John Hickson, Dr A Scott, Mr Albert Charles Seward, Professor William Johnson Sollas, and Professor Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Fellows of the Royal Society26 October 1906
NLB/36/173Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee30 August 1907
NLB/35/822Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1907
NLB/36/557Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society14 November 1907
NLB/37/385Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Professor [Sydney John] Hickson11 March 1908
NLB/39/171Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sydney] J [John] Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee4 December 1908
NLB/38/334Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee16 July 1908
NLB/38/632Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society14 October 1908
RR/23/60Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'Colony-formation in astrœid corals' by G Matthai12 September 1916
RR/25/13Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'The development of the sea-anemones Metridium dianthus (Ellis) and Adamsia palliata (Bohad)' by James Fairlie Gemmill[June 1918]
RR/16/286Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'The growth of the oocyte in antedon: A morphological study in the cell-metabolism' by Gilbert C ChubbMarch 1906
NLB/24/659Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society14 June 1902
NLB/32/509Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee22 March 1906
NLB/35/782Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1907
RR/10/179Referee's report by Adam Sedgwick, on a paper 'On the sexual cells and the early stages in the development of Millepora plicata' by Sydney John Hickson30 December 1887
NLB/52New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1915-8 March 1916
RR/9/164Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on three papers; 'On the structure and functions of the eyes of arthropoda' by B Thompson Lowne, 'Observations on the colouring-matters of the so-called bile of invertebrates, on those of the bile of vertebrates, and on some unusual urine pigments' by Charles A MacMunn and 'On the ciliated groove (siphonoglyphe) in the stomodaeum of the alcyonarians' by Sydney John Hickson31 May 1883
RR/10/180Second referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'On the sexual cells and the early stages in the development of Millepora plicata' by Sydney John Hickson26 January 1888
RR/14/253Detailed referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'Upon the development of the enamel in certain osseous fish' by Charles Sissmore Tomes3 January 1900
RR/17/35Committee report to Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'On the development of the head-muscles of the common fowl (Gallus domesticus), together with some remarks on the head-muscles of reptiles' by F H Edgeworth, and a letter from F H Edgeworth5 October 1906
PP/8/21Paper, 'Notes upon a new Alcyonarian' by S J [Sydney John] Hickson1886
RR/16/356Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'A biometrical study of conjugation in paramaecium' by Raymond PearlApril 1906
RR/10/178Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on two papers 'On the sexual cells and the early stages in the development of Millepora plicata' by Sydney John Hickson and 'A contribution to the study of the comparative anatomy of flowers' by G Henslow28 December 1887
MC/14/218Letter from Sydney [Jonh] Hickson, Downing College, Cambridge, to [Michael] Foster6 June 1887
NLB/18/7Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Sydney J Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society21 December 1898
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
NLB/38/816Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney John Hickson, Fellow of the Royal Society10 November 1908
NLB/38/542Copy letter from Joseph Larmor and Sir Archibald Geikie, to Henry Frederick Baker, Fellow of the Royal Society, and others16 September 1908
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
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