Unpublished letter, regarding terrestrial magnetism from R Wolf to Edward Sabine
Reference number: AP/39/18
Date: 07 March 1857
Description
Wolf describes his observations on the connections between sunspots and variations in terrestrial magnetism.
Annotations in pencil. Marked on front as 'Proc [Proceedings]'.
Subject: Physics / Magnetism
Communicated by Sabine.
Written by Wolf in Zurich.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Extract of a letter addressed to General Sabine, R. A. Treas. and V. P. R. S., by M. R. Wolf, dated Zurich, March 7, 1857. Communicated by Gen. Sabine'.
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- 07 March 1857
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R Wolf
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R Wolf, Unpublished letter, regarding terrestrial magnetism from R Wolf to Edward Sabine, 07 March 1857, AP/39/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_18/unpublished-letter-regarding-terrestrial-magnetism-from-r-wolf-to-edward-sabine, accessed on 13 November 2024
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III. Extract of a letter addressed to General Sabine, R. A. Treas. and V. P. R. S., by M. R. Wolf, dated Zurich, March 7, 1857. Communicated by Gen. Sabine External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1857
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0106
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Archived papers: volume 39, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1856-1857
1856-1857 Reference number: AP/39
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Edward Sabine
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