IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 846
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Thornton, Sir Henry Gerard (1892-1977)
Date(s): 1952-1956
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 5 volumes
Name of creator(s): Thornton | Sir | Henry Gerard | 1892-1977 | Knight | microbiologist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1892; Kt, 1960; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1941; Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, 1955-1960; Vice President of the Royal Society, 1959-1960; died, 1977.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photographs recording the visits of Sir Henry Gerard Thornton abroad, on business for the Royal Society including visits made to Ankara in April 1952; Israel in May 1952; Delhi in 1954 and Russia in 1956.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Visits in date order
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Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
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.