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Letter from Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On Stokes’s current function' by Ralph Allen Sampson

Reference number: RR/11/87

Date: 10 July 1891

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Asks for an update on Sampson's progress. He has received the second version of the paper but has not yet reported on it . He will read and report upon it at the first opportunity.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1891].

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RR/11/87
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10 July 1891
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph John Thomson

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Joseph John Thomson, Letter from Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On Stokes’s current function' by Ralph Allen Sampson, 10 July 1891, RR/11/87, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_87/letter-from-joseph-john-thomson-on-a-paper-on-stokess-current-function-by-ralph-allen-sampson, accessed on 13 May 2025

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