Kesselmeyerm, correspondence

Scope and Content

  • MS 1453/124;D Letter to Robert Falcon Scott, 29 November 1904, 2 leaves, holograph

Administrative / Biographical History

The letter was written to Scott at the end of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 and relates to Kesselmeyerm's discovery of an important correlation between the flattening of the earth at the poles and the connection between Mean and Sidereal Time.

Arrangement

Chronological.

Related Material

The Institute holds over seventy archival collections containing material on the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 including extensive collections for Robert Falcon Scott.