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Letter from James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'Electrodynamic qualities of metals (continued from Phil. Trans. Vol. 146. Read Feb. 28, 1856). —Part VI. effects of stress on magnetization' by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/7/417

Date: 16 July 1875

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He believes the best way to make the paper complete is 'to leave it in the Proceedings in it's present form and wait for the improved and amended paper for the Transactions'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1876].

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RR/7/417
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James Clerk Maxwell, Letter from James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'Electrodynamic qualities of metals (continued from Phil. Trans. Vol. 146. Read Feb. 28, 1856). —Part VI. effects of stress on magnetization' by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 16 July 1875, RR/7/417, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_417/letter-from-james-clerk-maxwell-on-a-paper-electrodynamic-qualities-of-metals-continued-from-phil-trans-vol-146-read-feb-28-1856-part-vi-effects-of-stress-on-magnetization-by-william-thomson-lord-kelvin-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 20 April 2026

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