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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number PEARSON/11/1/22/21
TitleWatney, John
Date1890-1902
DescriptionManuscript. Congratulates K Pearson on election to Professorship of Geometry, Gresham College; dates, scheme and advertisement of lectures; returns proof of Pearson's syllabus; enclosing an anonymous letter sent to the Lord Mayor accusing Pearson of using Gresham Lectures to attack Christianity, and propounding views on physics and metaphysics rather than teaching Geometry; Pearson's re-election to the Gresham Chair for 1892; expenses fund per year for cost of illustrating the lectures; informing that the Gresham Committee would be unlikely to help in building an observatory on the roof of UCL.
Extent10 letters
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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