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Paper, 'On magnetic calms and earth currents' by Charles V [Vincent] Walker

Reference number: PT/64/8

Date: 01 February 1862

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38 manuscript pages and one plate showing the arrangement of Walker's miniature observatory.

Subject: Geodesy

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

Received by the Royal Society on 3 February 1862. Read 13 February 1862.

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/64/8
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01 February 1862
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Ink on paper
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39 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Vincent Walker

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Charles Vincent Walker, Paper, 'On magnetic calms and earth currents' by Charles V [Vincent] Walker, 01 February 1862, PT/64/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_64_8/paper-on-magnetic-calms-and-earth-currents-by-charles-v-vincent-walker, accessed on 13 February 2025

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