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Royal Society: outgoing letters of the Foreign Secretaries


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 581

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Royal Society: outgoing letters of the Foreign Secretaries

Date(s): 1784-1847

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 115 letters bound into one volume

Name of creator(s): Young | Thomas | 1773-1829 | physician, physicist and Egyptologist
Smyth | William Henry | 1788-1865 | scientist and antiquary | Admiral
Daniell | John Frederic | 1790-1845 | chemist
Sabine | Sir | Edward | 1788-1883 | Knight | General and geophysicist
Konig | Charles Dietrich Eberhard | 1774-1851 | mineralogist
Layard | Charles Peter | 1749-1803 | clergyman

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Foreign Secretaries of the Royal Society:
17 June 1784 Charles Peter Layard
22 March 1804 Thomas Young M.D.
30 November 1830 Charles Konig
30 November 1837 Captain William Henry Smyth, R.N.
30 November 1839 John Frederic Daniell
1 December 1845 Lieutenant Colonel Edward Sabine
30 November 1850 Captain William Henry Smyth R.N.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of the outgoing letters written by the Foreign Secretaries of the Royal Society.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Bound volume.

Finding aids:

List of letters, persons and dates, in front of box.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
History of science | Science of science
Learned societies | Associations | Organizations

Personal names
Daniell | John Frederic | 1790-1845 | chemist
Konig | Charles Dietrich Eberhard | 1774-1851 | mineralogist
Layard | Charles Peter | 1749-1803 | clergyman
Sabine | Sir | Edward | 1788-1883 | Knight | General and geophysicist
Smyth | William Henry | 1788-1865 | scientist and antiquary | Admiral
Young | Thomas | 1773-1829 | physician, physicist and Egyptologist

Corporate names
Royal Society

Places