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Finds Robert Bellamy Clifton to be correct as regards the incorrect formula being used in the paper. Cannot remember giving the incorrect formula to the author, thinks it may have been in a letter, but is not sure how far he is responsible. Has communicated the issues with the author. Mentions the poor health of his wife.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1879]

Reference number
RR/8/102
Earliest possible date
12 August 1878
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from James Clerk Maxwell, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Measurements of electrical constants. No. II. On the specific inductive capacities of certain dielectrics. Part I' by J E H Gordon, 12 August 1878, RR/8/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_102/letter-from-james-clerk-maxwell-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-a-paper-measurements-of-electrical-constants-no-ii-on-the-specific-inductive-capacities-of-certain-dielectrics-part-i-by-j-e-h-gordon, accessed on 14 December 2024

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