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Paper, 'On the plasticity of glacier and other ice' by James C McConnel and Dudley A Kidd

Reference number: PP/12/26

Date: 1888

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The authors write: 'The experiments described in the following paper were undertaken in continuation of those made by Dr Main in the winter 1886-87, and described by him in a paper read before the Royal Society the following summer. The investigation is by no means complete, but the results hitherto obtained seem to us sufficiently novel and prosecute the subject further next winter. We shall first give a general account of our results, and then describe the experiments in more full detail.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physics

Received 12 June 1888 / 15 June 1888. Read 21 June 1888. Communicated by John Scott Burdon Sanderson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 44 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the plasticity of glacier and other ice'.

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PP/12/26
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1888
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
66 pages

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James C McConnel

Dudley A Kidd

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James C McConnel, Dudley A Kidd, Paper, 'On the plasticity of glacier and other ice' by James C McConnel and Dudley A Kidd, 1888, PP/12/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_12_26/paper-on-the-plasticity-of-glacier-and-other-ice-by-james-c-mcconnel-and-dudley-a-kidd, accessed on 06 December 2025

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