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

Reference number: RR/11/88

Date: 24 August 1891

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. He has enclosed his report. [report not included in record].

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1891].

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RR/11/88
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24 August 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, 24 August 1891, RR/11/88, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_88/letter-from-joseph-john-thomson-on-a-paper-on-stokess-current-function-by-ralph-allen-sampson, accessed on 25 April 2025

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