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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/380
TitleBalfour Stewart
Extent5 items
Date1885-1886
DescriptionCorrespondence from Balfour Stewart [1828-1887, physicist and meteorologist].

/1 Letter from Balfour Stewart to Oliver Lodge, written from 64 Parsonage Road, Withington, Manchester, dated 7 April 1885. Stewart discusses arrangement of courses following the addition of mechanics to the entrance examinations for medical students.

/2 Letter from Balfour Stewart to Oliver Lodge, written from Owens College, Manchester, dated 26 May 1885. Stewart writes to Lodge about compiling questions for the Preliminary Scientific Medical Examination paper.

/3 Letter from Balfour Stewart to Oliver Lodge, written from Owens College, Manchester, dated 18 June 1885. Stewart describes three practical tests for inclusion in Preliminary Scientific Exam and asks for Lodge's approval.

/4 Letter from Balfour Stewart to Oliver Lodge, written from Owens College, Manchester, dated 13 October 1885. Stewart describes three tests for inclusion in Medical Scientific Exam and asks for Lodge's approval. He writes that Lodge will not need to attend as Poynting will be present.

/5 Letter from Balfour Stewart to Oliver Lodge, written from Owens College, Manchester, dated 13 July 1886, marked 'Private'. Stewart suggests that Lodge and ?Cave join him in declining to be examiners at the Preliminary Science exam in July in order to put pressure on Williamson.
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