Identificatie
referentie code
Add. MS a/208/79
Titel
Letter from John William Lubbock
Datum(s)
- 17 Mar. 1831 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Stuk
Omvang en medium
4 pp.
Context
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Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
WW is perhaps aware that Mr Stratford [William Stratford] has been campaigning to get appointed to the office of superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, and is supported by Capt. Beaufort [Francis Beaufort]. Beaufort did not think that JWL should even consider the job. In response JWL wrote to him to assure him that he did 'you could hardly suppose that I should have felt objection to become the successor of such men as Dr. Maskelyne Dr. Young and Mr Pond'. However he learnt last night that Stratford was appointed to the post: 'he has not the mathematical knowledge of a second year man at Cambridge'. Beaufort has given JWL access to all the Admiralty Charts.