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Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture: On the elementary particles of certain crystals' by William Hyde Wollaston

Reference number: PT/7/5

Date: 1812

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the elementary particles of certain crystals'.

Read 26 November 1812.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/7/5
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1812
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27 pages
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William Hyde Wollaston

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William Hyde Wollaston, Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture: On the elementary particles of certain crystals' by William Hyde Wollaston, 1812, PT/7/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_5/paper-the-bakerian-lecture-on-the-elementary-particles-of-certain-crystals-by-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 18 July 2025

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