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Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to George West Royston-Pigott, regarding a paper 'Microscopical researches in high power definition' by George West Royston-Pigott

Reference number: RR/8/201

Date: 31 October 1879

Description

The paper has been before the Committee of Papers, and the decision made not to publish in the Philosophical Transactions, with decision to publish in the Proceedings to be made. The second part of the paper did not discuss the advances made in recent years in Germany. The tone of the paper might be changed to be less personable, and some of the illustrations omitted.

Subject: Applied Sciences, Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1881]

Reference number
RR/8/201
Earliest possible date
31 October 1879
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Typescript

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Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to George West Royston-Pigott, regarding a paper 'Microscopical researches in high power definition' by George West Royston-Pigott, 31 October 1879, RR/8/201, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_201/letter-from-george-gabriel-stokes-to-george-west-royston-pigott-regarding-a-paper-microscopical-researches-in-high-power-definition-by-george-west-royston-pigott, accessed on 10 December 2024

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