IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 538
Held at: Royal Society
Title: National Physical Laboratory
Date(s): nd
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: Unknown
Name of creator(s): National Physical Laboratory
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK's National Measurement Institute. The Royal Society appointed the first Director of the NPL, Richard Tetley Grazebrook, on 1 Jan 1900; the NPL was opened in Mar 1902.
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Letters and papers about the early years of the National Physical Laboratory.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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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.