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Letter from Charles Piazzi Smyth, on his paper 'Certain supra-annual cycles of temperature in the earth's surface crust' to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/7/68

Date: 21 November 1870

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Letter from Smyth, in response to the comments made by the referees of his paper.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1869].

Reference number
RR/7/68
Earliest possible date
21 November 1870
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter from Charles Piazzi Smyth, on his paper 'Certain supra-annual cycles of temperature in the earth's surface crust' to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 21 November 1870, RR/7/68, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_68/letter-from-charles-piazzi-smyth-on-his-paper-certain-supra-annual-cycles-of-temperature-in-the-earths-surface-crust-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 19 May 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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