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Photograph by Fi McGhee

Photograph by Fi McGhee

Photograph by Fi McGhee

Photograph by Fi McGhee

Postcard photograph of Peter Le Neve Foster.

Original drawing

The Council was established in 1846 with first its Chairmen, Edward Speer and George Bailey. The Council assumed full responsibility for the management of the Society. Chairmen of Council generally serve a two-year term of office. \nRecords include correspondence of Charles Wentworth Dilke and Lyon Playfair as well as general late 20th century correspondence and papers. earlier material can be found within AD.MA/100.

Letters to Dilke from Prince Albert, Lord Granville, Peter le Neve Foster and others about the Great Exhibition, the Royal Horticultural Society and Dilke's baronetcy. Also includes other correspondence, newspaper cuttings and a manuscript 'Private Family Memoir' of Dilke's life

Letters to Playfair on the Paris Exhibition of 1855, 'boulets asphyxiants', the School of Mines, diet, appointment of teachers, secular education, the Geological Survey, the Royal Dublin Society etc. Includes correspondence from Henry Cole and Prince Albert. An account of the letters was given in a lecture by Dr Norrish on 9 May 1951 and printed in the Journal, volume 99 pp537-549

Letters to Playfair on the Paris Exhibition of 1855, 'boulets asphyxiants', the School of Mines, diet, appointment of teachers, secular education, the Geological Survey, the Royal Dublin Society etc. Includes correspondence from Henry Cole and with Prince Albert. An account of the letters was given in a lecture by Dr Norrish on 9 May 1951 and printed in the Journal, volume 99 pp537-549