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Letter from Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, regarding his paper with Lucy Everest Boole 'An enquiry into the nature of the vesicating constituent of croton oil' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh

Reference number: RR/12/313

Date: 25 January 1896

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Cannot reduce the length of the paper any further. Does not think the seven month delay in deciding to print in the Proceedings, rather than the Philosophical Transactions, especially when a full abstract has already been printed in the Proceedings, is justifiable.

Subject: Pharmacology, Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1896]

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RR/12/313
Earliest possible date
25 January 1896
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter from Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, regarding his paper with Lucy Everest Boole 'An enquiry into the nature of the vesicating constituent of croton oil' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, 25 January 1896, RR/12/313, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_313/letter-from-wyndham-rowland-dunstan-regarding-his-paper-with-lucy-everest-boole-an-enquiry-into-the-nature-of-the-vesicating-constituent-of-croton-oil-to-john-william-strutt-lord-rayleigh, accessed on 16 September 2024

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