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Second letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake Utah' by Thomas Edward Thorpe

Reference number: RR/8/212

Date: 03 December 1879

Description

Acknowledges receipt of the new from the Committee that the paper will not be published in the Philosophical Transactions, and that a decision on printing in the Proceedings is yet to be made. Does not see how the paper can be abridged.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1880]

Reference number
RR/8/212
Earliest possible date
03 December 1879
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Second letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake Utah' by Thomas Edward Thorpe, 03 December 1879, RR/8/212, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_212/second-letter-from-thomas-edward-thorpe-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-a-paper-a-magnetic-survey-of-the-fortieth-parallel-in-north-america-between-the-atlantic-ocean-and-the-great-salt-lake-utah-by-thomas-edward-thorpe, accessed on 05 December 2024

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