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Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, on his paper 'On the locus of singular points and lines which occur in connection the theory of the locus of ultimate intersections of a system of surfaces' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/11/56

Date: 21 December 1891

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Responds to Andrew Russell Forsyth's criticisms of the paper.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1892].

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RR/11/56
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21 December 1891
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Letter on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Micaiah John Muller Hill

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Micaiah John Muller Hill, Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, on his paper 'On the locus of singular points and lines which occur in connection the theory of the locus of ultimate intersections of a system of surfaces' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society, 21 December 1891, RR/11/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_56/letter-from-micaiah-john-muller-hill-on-his-paper-on-the-locus-of-singular-points-and-lines-which-occur-in-connection-the-theory-of-the-locus-of-ultimate-intersections-of-a-system-of-surfaces-to-john-william-strutt-lord-rayleigh-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 December 2025

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