Paper, 'The figure and primitive formation of the earth or part I of researches on physical geology' by Henry Hennessy
Reference number: PT/42/8
Date: 1846
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Subject: Geology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The figure and primitive formation of the earth, or researches in terrestrial physics.—Part I'.
Communicated by Major [North] Ludlow Beamish. Received by the Royal Society on 29 October 1846. Read 17 December 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.
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- PT/42/8
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- 1846
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- 47 pages
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1851
October 1846 - April 1853 Reference number: PT/42
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