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Letter from Joseph Norman Lockyer, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches in spectrum-analysis in connexion with the spectrum of the sun.— No. V' by Joseph Norman Lockyer

Reference number: RR/8/45

Date: 23 October 1877

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Sends a formal application to withdraw the paper. Since the paper was submitted, the mapping of metals has been completed. Refers to pioneer of astrophotography Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, who sent him "a magnificent reflection grating". Proposes submitting new papers on the subject.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1881]

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RR/8/45
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23 October 1877
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Letter from Joseph Norman Lockyer, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches in spectrum-analysis in connexion with the spectrum of the sun.— No. V' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 23 October 1877, RR/8/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_45/letter-from-joseph-norman-lockyer-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-a-paper-researches-in-spectrum-analysis-in-connexion-with-the-spectrum-of-the-sun-no-v-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 13 December 2024

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