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Paper, 'On the composition of the compound sulphuret from Huel Boys, and an account of its crystals' by James Smithson

Reference number: PT/2/3

Date: 1808

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11 manuscript pages and one plate of figures showing crystal structures.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the composition of the compound sulphuret from Huel Boys, and an account of its crystals'.

Read 28 January 1808.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/2/3
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1808
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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James Smithson

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James Smithson, Paper, 'On the composition of the compound sulphuret from Huel Boys, and an account of its crystals' by James Smithson, 1808, PT/2/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_2_3/paper-on-the-composition-of-the-compound-sulphuret-from-huel-boys-and-an-account-of-its-crystals-by-james-smithson, accessed on 19 July 2025

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