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Letter from Robert Bellamy Clifton, to Mr White, regarding two papers 'On some hitherto undescribed optical properties of doubly refracting crystals.—Preliminary notice' by Henry Clifton Sorby, and 'On the foci of lines seen through a crystalline plate' by George Gabriel Stokes

Reference number: RR/8/65

Date: 10 August 1877

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Both papers should be printed together in the Proceedings. Will return the papers at the first opportunity.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Applied Sciences

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1878]

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RR/8/65
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10 August 1877
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Robert Bellamy Clifton

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Robert Bellamy Clifton, Letter from Robert Bellamy Clifton, to Mr White, regarding two papers 'On some hitherto undescribed optical properties of doubly refracting crystals.—Preliminary notice' by Henry Clifton Sorby, and 'On the foci of lines seen through a crystalline plate' by George Gabriel Stokes, 10 August 1877, RR/8/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_65/letter-from-robert-bellamy-clifton-to-mr-white-regarding-two-papers-on-some-hitherto-undescribed-optical-properties-of-doubly-refracting-crystalspreliminary-notice-by-henry-clifton-sorby-and-on-the-foci-of-lines-seen-through-a-crystalline-plate-by-george-gabriel-stokes, accessed on 05 December 2024

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