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Apologises for late response, encloses report on the paper by Joseph Norman Lockyer. Will next work on the report for a paper by Thomas Edward Thorpe.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Astronomy

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1895]

Reference number
RR/12/190
Earliest possible date
07 November 1894
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Henry Mahoney Christie

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William Henry Mahoney Christie, Letter from William Henry Mahoney Christie, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the photographic spectrum of the great nebula in Orion' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 07 November 1894, RR/12/190, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_190/letter-from-william-henry-mahoney-christie-to-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-regarding-a-paper-on-the-photographic-spectrum-of-the-great-nebula-in-orion-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 10 October 2024

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