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Letter from William Crookes, on his paper 'Researches on the atomic weight of thallium' to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/7/164

Date: 26 November 1872

Description

Has included a drawing. which should be incorporated into his paper. He doesn't know which artist to use for the drawings, but asks that they draw from the apparatus themselves and not from the sketches he provided.

Subject: Chemistry

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1873].

Reference number
RR/7/164
Earliest possible date
26 November 1872
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from William Crookes, on his paper 'Researches on the atomic weight of thallium' to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 26 November 1872, RR/7/164, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_164/letter-from-william-crookes-on-his-paper-researches-on-the-atomic-weight-of-thallium-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 14 July 2026

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