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Letter, from Robert Brown to Sir John Herschel, dated at Fairlie by Greenock

Reference number: HS/4/320

Date: 15 November 1870

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Further comments on John Frederick William Herschel's paper on the musical scales.

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HS/4/320
Earliest possible date
15 November 1870
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Brown

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Robert Brown, Letter, from Robert Brown to Sir John Herschel, dated at Fairlie by Greenock, 15 November 1870, HS/4/320, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_320/letter-from-robert-brown-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-fairlie-by-greenock, accessed on 03 December 2024

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