Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1864
Reference number: PT/70
Date: March 1862 - September 1864
Description
This volume contains the manuscript versions of papers published by the Royal Society in volume 143 of Philosophical Transactions in 1864.
The volume also includes some original illustrations and figures in various media (drawings, watercolours) in support of the papers.
Missing from this volume are manuscripts for the following papers:
'Catalogue of nebulæ and clusters of stars' by John Frederick William Herschel;
'On the absorption and radiation of heat by gaseous and liquid matter.—Fourth memoir' by John Tyndall; and
'A comparison of the most notable disturbances of the magnetic declination in 1858 and 1859 at Kew and at Nertschinsk; preceded by a brief retrospective view of the progress of the investigation into the laws and causes of the magnetic disturbances' by Edward Sabine.
- Reference number
- PT/70
- Earliest possible date
- March 1862 - September 1864
- Physical description
- Vellum-covered volume, gilded title on spine
- Page extent
- One volume containing 16 papers
- Format
- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1864, March 1862 - September 1864, PT/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_70/manuscripts-of-papers-published-in-philosophical-transactions-1864, accessed on 15 October 2024
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This volume contains 16 manuscripts:
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Paper, 'On the spectra of some of the chemical elements' by William Huggins
1863 Creator: William Huggins Reference number: PT/70/1 -
Paper, 'Account of magnetic observations made between the years 1858-61 inclusive in British Columbia Washington Territory and Vancouver Island' by Capt R W [Robert Wolseley] Haig
1863 Creator: Robert Wolseley Haig Reference number: PT/70/2 -
Paper, 'On the influence of temperature on the electric conducting power of alloys' by A [Augustus] Matthiessen and [August Christoph] C [Carl] Vogt
1863 Creator: Augustus Matthiessen Reference number: PT/70/3 -
Paper, 'Theoretical considerations on the condition under which the drift deposits containing the remains of extinct mammalia and flint-implements were accumulated and on their geological age and on the loess of the south of England and north of France' by Jos [Joseph] Prestwich
1862 Creator: Joseph Prestwich Reference number: PT/70/4
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