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Letter from Robert Bellamy Clifton, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches in spectrum analysis in connection with the spectrum of the sun' by Joseph Norman Lockyer

Reference number: RR/8/114

Date: 11 March 1878

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Apologises for having taken so long to compile a report, owing to lack of time and ill health.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Astronomy

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1878]

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RR/8/114
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11 March 1878
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1 page
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Robert Bellamy Clifton

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Robert Bellamy Clifton, Letter from Robert Bellamy Clifton, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches in spectrum analysis in connection with the spectrum of the sun' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 11 March 1878, RR/8/114, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_114/letter-from-robert-bellamy-clifton-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-a-paper-researches-in-spectrum-analysis-in-connection-with-the-spectrum-of-the-sun-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 03 December 2024

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