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Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J F W Herschel

Reference number: MM/11/162

Date: 11 January 1842

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Remarks on Airy's letter of 25 December 1841 (MM/11/160).

Airy had written criticising the formula given in the proposed instructions for the observers on the Antarctic Expedition for deducing the absolute intensity of a magnet.

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MM/11/162
Earliest possible date
11 January 1842
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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George Biddell Airy

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George Biddell Airy, Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J F W Herschel, 11 January 1842, MM/11/162, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mm_11_162/letter-from-humphrey-lloyd-trinity-college-dublin-to-j-f-w-herschel, accessed on 22 January 2025

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