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Letter, 'Remarks on Henry Cavendish's experiments on air' from Richard Kirwan to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/56

Date: 29 January 1784

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophicla Transactions, as 'Remarks on Mr. Cavendish's experiments on air. In a letter from Richard Kirwan, Esq. F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. F.R.S'

Read 5 February 1784

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L&P/8/56
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29 January 1784
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Ink on paper
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15 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Kirwan

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Richard Kirwan, Letter, 'Remarks on Henry Cavendish's experiments on air' from Richard Kirwan to Joseph Banks, 29 January 1784, L&P/8/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_56/letter-remarks-on-henry-cavendishs-experiments-on-air-from-richard-kirwan-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 13 January 2025

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