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Encloses report. Is an old acquaintance of John Wesley Judd, and does not wish ill-will so asks to make sure his signature will not be on the report sent to the author.

Subject: Geology, Crystallography

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1896]

Reference number
RR/12/274
Earliest possible date
22 April 1895
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne

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Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, Letter from Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne, regarding a paper 'The rubies of Burma and associated minerals: their mode of occurrence, origin, and metamorphoses. A contribution to the history of corundum' by C Barrington Brown and John Wesley Judd, 22 April 1895, RR/12/274, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_274/letter-from-mervyn-herbert-nevil-story-maskelyne-regarding-a-paper-the-rubies-of-burma-and-associated-minerals-their-mode-of-occurrence-origin-and-metamorphoses-a-contribution-to-the-history-of-corundum-by-c-barrington-brown-and-john-wesley-judd, accessed on 14 March 2026

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