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Paper, 'Preliminary report to the Solar Physics Committee on the Sun spot observations made at Kensington [London]' by J N [Joseph Norman] Lockyer

Reference number: PP/1/11

Date: 1881

Description

A printed notice from Lockyer in which he relays that 'about 220 observations have have been drawn up and the tabulation of the first hundred completed' regarding Sunspot observations beginning in November 1879.

Annotations in ink throughout.

Subject: Astronomy

A version of this paper was published in volume 33 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Preliminary Report to the solar physics Committee on the sun-spot observations made at Kensington'.

Reference number
PP/1/11
Earliest possible date
1881
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript
Printed

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Joseph Norman Lockyer

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Joseph Norman Lockyer, Paper, 'Preliminary report to the Solar Physics Committee on the Sun spot observations made at Kensington [London]' by J N [Joseph Norman] Lockyer, 1881, PP/1/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_1_11/paper-preliminary-report-to-the-solar-physics-committee-on-the-sun-spot-observations-made-at-kensington-london-by-j-n-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 12 December 2024

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