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Diagram, Mer de Glace movements by [John Tyndall?]

Reference number: PT/75/8/7

Date: 1858

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Figures 1 showing a diagram of the Mer de Glace glacier [French Alps], inscribed with lines indicating its movements. Inscribed recto and verso with publication and plate details. A pencil inscription bottom right reads 'Fig 1 reduce 1/3rd'. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Glaciology / Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the physical phenomena of glaciers.—Part I. Observations on the Mer de Glace' by John Tyndall.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 20 May 1858.

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PT/75/8/7
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1858
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Diagram

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John Tyndall

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John Tyndall, Diagram, Mer de Glace movements by [John Tyndall?], 1858, PT/75/8/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_8_7/diagram-mer-de-glace-movements-by-john-tyndall, accessed on 22 March 2025

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