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Letter from Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet

Reference number: RR/8/4

Date: 23 April 1877

Description

Has enquired at the Bodleian Library about the book by François-Joseph Fétis 'Histoire Generale de la Musique Volume II' of 1869, which they do not have, but have placed it on order.

Subject: Mathematics, Music

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1877]

Reference number
RR/8/4
Earliest possible date
23 April 1877
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet, 23 April 1877, RR/8/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_4/letter-from-robert-holford-macdowall-bosanquet-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-a-paper-on-the-hindoo-hindu-division-of-the-octave-with-some-additions-to-the-theory-of-the-higher-orders-by-robert-holford-macdowall-bosanquet, accessed on 02 December 2024

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