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Letter from Coutts Trotter, on his paper 'On some physical properties of ice and on the motion of glaciers, with special reference to the late Canon Moseley's objections to gravitation theories' to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/9/192

Date: 25 August 1883

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He will send his paper over soon. It is longer than he intended, but it is for the most part, 'easy reading'.

Subject: Physics/Geology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1884].

Reference number
RR/9/192
Earliest possible date
25 August 1883
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter from Coutts Trotter, on his paper 'On some physical properties of ice and on the motion of glaciers, with special reference to the late Canon Moseley's objections to gravitation theories' to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 25 August 1883, RR/9/192, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_192/letter-from-coutts-trotter-on-his-paper-on-some-physical-properties-of-ice-and-on-the-motion-of-glaciers-with-special-reference-to-the-late-canon-moseleys-objections-to-gravitation-theories-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 15 October 2024

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