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Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'New researches upon the dispersion of the optic axes in Harmotome and Wöhlerite, proving these minerals to belong to the clinorhombic [oblique] system' by Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloizeaux

Reference number: RR/6/100

Date: 1868

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', if Muller [Hugo Muller?] is also satisfied. Does not feel confident in criticising the originality of the paper fully on account of not being up-to-date with current crystallographic research. Refers to work by Dove [Heinrich Wilhelm Dove?].

Subject: Geology, Crystallography

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

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RR/6/100
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1868
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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James Clerk Maxwell, Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'New researches upon the dispersion of the optic axes in Harmotome and Wöhlerite, proving these minerals to belong to the clinorhombic [oblique] system' by Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloizeaux, 1868, RR/6/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_6_100/referees-report-by-james-clerk-maxwell-on-a-paper-new-researches-upon-the-dispersion-of-the-optic-axes-in-harmotome-and-wöhlerite-proving-these-minerals-to-belong-to-the-clinorhombic-oblique-system-by-alfred-louis-olivier-des-cloizeaux, accessed on 11 November 2025

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