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Royal Society: Photocopy Collection


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 PH

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Royal Society: Photocopy Collection

Date(s): nd

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 12 groups of copies, bound and boxed

Name of creator(s): Royal Society

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CONTENT

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A small collection of photostats or photocopies of manuscripts held in other institutions, but of some relevance to the Royal Society and its own Archives. The series largely consists of groups of correspondence, notable letters to Julius Plucker (PH.1) letters of Hevelius, Newton and Flamsteed (PH.2) and of Edmond Halley (PH.3) There are some records of other institutions, including a minute book of the Physiological Society 1876-1892 (PH.9), and copies of Rutherford's correspondence at the Cavendish Laboratory.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

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Finding aids:

All items in the series noted in the Archive Card Catalogue; only PH.1 and PH.2 are on a letter by letter basis.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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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.


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

Personal names
Flamsteed | John | 1646-1719 | astronomer
Halley | Edmond | 1656-1742 | astronomer
Hevelius | Johann | 1611-1687 | astronomer
Newton | Sir | Isaac | 1642-1727 | Knight | physicist and mathematician
Plucker | Julius | 1801-1868 | mathematician and physicist

Corporate names
Physiological Society
Royal Society

Places