Unpublished paper, 'On the supply of water from the chalk stratum in the neighbourhood of London' by John Dickinson
Reference number: AP/33/10
Date: 26 December 1850
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Dickinson aims to explain and illustrate the supply of subterranean water which is always found at certain depths in the chalk strata, the circumstances that influence its natural outflow by springs and rivers, the practicability of draining off that water by an artificial mode of exhaustion, and the changes that would be produced by carrying such an operation into effect on a large scale.
Subject: Geology
Received 6 January 1851. Read 6 February 1851. Written by Dickinson at Abbot's Hill [London].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the supply of water from the chalk stratum in the neighbourhood of London'.
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- AP/33/10
- Earliest possible date
- 26 December 1850
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 17 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Dickinson, Unpublished paper, 'On the supply of water from the chalk stratum in the neighbourhood of London' by John Dickinson, 26 December 1850, AP/33/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_33_10/unpublished-paper-on-the-supply-of-water-from-the-chalk-stratum-in-the-neighbourhood-of-london-by-john-dickinson, accessed on 10 December 2025
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DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0009
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Archived papers: volume 33, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1849-1852
1849-1852 Reference number: AP/33
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