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
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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.
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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.