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19 manuscript pages and one plate showing various water vapours and droplets viewed through a microscope.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Microscopic observations on the so-called vesicular vapours of water, as existing in the vapours of steam, and in clouds, &c'.

Written by Waller in Kensington [London]. Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget. Received by the Royal Society on 13 April 1846. Read 16 June 1846.

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 5, 1851.

Reference number
PT/32/3
Earliest possible date
12 April 1846
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Ink on paper
Page extent
20 pages
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Manuscript

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Augustus Volney Waller

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Augustus Volney Waller, Paper, 'Microscopic observations on the so called vesicular vapours of water as existing in the vapours of steam, and in clouds' by A [Augustus Volney] Waller, 12 April 1846, PT/32/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_32_3/paper-microscopic-observations-on-the-so-called-vesicular-vapours-of-water-as-existing-in-the-vapours-of-steam-and-in-clouds-by-a-augustus-volney-waller, accessed on 07 February 2025

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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