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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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Henry Hennessy, Paper, 'The figure and primitive formation of the earth or part I of researches on physical geology' by Henry Hennessy, 1846, PT/42/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_42_8/paper-the-figure-and-primitive-formation-of-the-earth-or-part-i-of-researches-on-physical-geology-by-henry-hennessy, accessed on 10 September 2026

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