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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Researches on silica'.

Received by the Royal Society on 25 March 1857. Read 2 April 1857.

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 8, 1857.

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PT/58/11
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1857
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Ink on paper
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20 pages
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Manuscript

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Philip James Yorke

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Philip James Yorke, Paper, 'Researches on silica' by Col Philip [James] Yorke, 1857, PT/58/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_58_11/paper-researches-on-silica-by-col-philip-james-yorke, accessed on 19 July 2025

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