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Letter, from Henry Enfield Roscoe and Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Manchester

Reference number: HS/19/161a

Date: 12 March 1868

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Printed form letter, used by Sir John Frederick William Herschel as draft paper for a letter to the editor of Nature. Notice of next meeting of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.

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HS/19/161a
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12 March 1868
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1 page
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Joseph Baxendell

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Joseph Baxendell, Letter, from Henry Enfield Roscoe and Joseph Baxendell to Sir John Herschel, dated at Manchester, 12 March 1868, HS/19/161a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_19_161a/letter-from-henry-enfield-roscoe-and-joseph-baxendell-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-manchester, accessed on 14 September 2026

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