A series of letters : addressed to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, as president of the Royal Society, remonstrating against the conduct of that learned body / by Lieutenant-Colonel Everest.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Everest, George, Sir, 1790-1866, author.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal Society (Great Britain).

East India Company.

Jervis, T. B. (Thomas Best), 1796-1857. Address ... descriptive of the state.

Jervis, T. B.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

London : William Pickering, 1839.

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text file

Notes:

Remonstrance against the Society "in desiring the Court of Directors to repose their unlimited confidence in Major Jervis and his plans in regard to India" for a geodetic survey. Cf. DNB.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

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904537853

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