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Letter from Joseph Norman Lockyer, on his paper 'Researches in spectrum-analysis in connection with the spectrum of the sun - No. III' to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/7/314

Date: 15 April 1874

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Letter in response to the referee's observations on his paper.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1874].

Reference number
RR/7/314
Earliest possible date
15 April 1874
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from Joseph Norman Lockyer, on his paper 'Researches in spectrum-analysis in connection with the spectrum of the sun - No. III' to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 15 April 1874, RR/7/314, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_314/letter-from-joseph-norman-lockyer-on-his-paper-researches-in-spectrum-analysis-in-connection-with-the-spectrum-of-the-sun-no-iii-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 23 June 2025

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