IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 625
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Pole, William (1814-1900)
Date(s): 1859
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: Unknown
Name of creator(s): Pole | William | 1814-1900 | civil engineer
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Born, 1814; Education: Mus Doc (1867, Oxford); Career: Articled to an engineer; Consulting engineer, Westminster; Professor of Engineering, Elphinstone College, Bombay (1844-1847); returned to England and was Consulting Engineer to the Government and other bodies; Professor of Civil Engineering, University College, London (1857) Lecturer at the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham; Member of the Government Commission on the use of Iron for War Purposes; was colour blind; wrote on the game of whist; Memberships: FRAS; FGS; MICE (1840); Fellow of the Royal Society, (1861); Vice President of the Royal Society Council, (1875-1876 and 1888-1889); died (1900).
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Diagrams and manuscript of paper on colour blindness prepared by Sir William Pole, prepared for his paper published in 'Philosophical Transactions' in 1859.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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Publication note:
'On Colour-Blindness', William Pole, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 149, (1859), pp. 323-339.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
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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.