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Letter from A D Hall, on his paper 'The effect of plant growth and of manures upon the soil: the retention of bases by the soil' to Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society

Reference number: RR/16/321

Date: 05 July 1905

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Is writing at Dr Horace [Tabberer] Brown's suggestion to ask if the paper by himself and Dr Muller can be printed in the Proceedings instead of in Philosophical Transactions, assuming the Society will print it all.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1905].

Reference number
RR/16/321
Earliest possible date
05 July 1905
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from A D Hall, on his paper 'The effect of plant growth and of manures upon the soil: the retention of bases by the soil' to Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, 05 July 1905, RR/16/321, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_321/letter-from-a-d-hall-on-his-paper-the-effect-of-plant-growth-and-of-manures-upon-the-soil-the-retention-of-bases-by-the-soil-to-robert-william-frederick-harrison-assistant-secretary-royal-society, accessed on 14 July 2025

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