Paper, 'Experimental researches on the conductive powers of various substances, with the application of the results to the problem of terrestrial temperature' by W [William] Hopkins
Reference number: PT/59/8
Date: 1857
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Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches on the conductive powers of various substances, with the application of the results to the problem of terrestrial temperature'.
Received by the Royal Society on 10 June 1857. Read 18 June 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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