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Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to W Galloway, regarding a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway

Reference number: RR/8/303

Date: 30 January 1882

Description

The paper requires further curtailment for inclusion in the Proceedings, where the Committee have ordered it be printed. Recommends the first part dealing with mine visits be curtailed or omitted, and instead focus the paper on the experimental second part.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Applied Sciences

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1882]

Reference number
RR/8/303
Earliest possible date
30 January 1882
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Typescript

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Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to W Galloway, regarding a paper 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III' by W Galloway, 30 January 1882, RR/8/303, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_303/letter-from-george-gabriel-stokes-to-w-galloway-regarding-a-paper-on-the-influence-of-coal-dust-in-colliery-explosions-no-iii-by-w-galloway, accessed on 16 January 2025

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