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Paper, 'Magnetic storms and earth currents' by Charles V [Vincent] Walker

Reference number: PT/63/7

Date: 29 January 1861

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Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On magnetic storms and earth-currents'.

Written by Walker at Red Hill [Redhill], Reigate [Surrey, England]. Received by the Royal Society on 31 January 1861. Read 14 February 1861.

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 11, 1862.

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PT/63/7
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29 January 1861
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Ink on paper
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92 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Vincent Walker

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Charles Vincent Walker, Paper, 'Magnetic storms and earth currents' by Charles V [Vincent] Walker, 29 January 1861, PT/63/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_63_7/paper-magnetic-storms-and-earth-currents-by-charles-v-vincent-walker, accessed on 16 March 2025

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