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Geikie encloses a letter from Captain [Robert Falcon] Scott [concerning errors in the preface of the Meteorological Volume]. It has been considered by the officers of the Royal Society who would like Shaw's thoughts about it.

Reference number
MS/591/4/7
Earliest possible date
23 October 1908
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Archibald Geikie

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Archibald Geikie, Letter from Archibald Geikie to Dr W N [William Napier] Shaw, 23 October 1908, MS/591/4/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_591_4_7/letter-from-archibald-geikie-to-dr-w-n-william-napier-shaw, accessed on 11 August 2026

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