Royal Society: outgoing letters of the Foreign Secretaries
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0117 MS 581 |
Held at | : Royal Society Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ › |
Full 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 |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
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 & 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.
Finding aids:
List of letters, persons and dates, in front of box.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
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.
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