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Letter from Joseph Jackson Lister, on his unnamed paper to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/1/151

Date: 24 March 1830

Description

Letter in response to John Pond, who has stated in a letter that he believes the author's paper should not be published. Lister states that under such circumstances he will 'certainly wish to withdraw it for the present at least'.

Paper title not stated.

[Not published in Philosophical Transactions].

Reference number
RR/1/151
Earliest possible date
24 March 1830
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from Joseph Jackson Lister, on his unnamed paper to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 24 March 1830, RR/1/151, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_151/letter-from-joseph-jackson-lister-on-his-unnamed-paper-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 01 December 2024

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