Honour to Whom Honour is Due
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners, Patronage |
Announces the award of the 'Romford [Rumford] Medal' to Balfour Stewart at a recent Royal Society meeting. Questions whether this was not a mistake, supposing that such a medal should have been awarded instead to Ind Coope and Co. (a firm of brewers based in Romford, Essex). | |
© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020
Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]