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Letter from William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Observations on variations of the electromotive force between metals at high temperatures in fused salts' by Thomas Andrews to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/9/251

Date: 17 October 1885

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Referee did not realise that the paper has already been published in abstract. The paper is not 'sufficient importance' to be published again and no further publishing is necessary.

Subject: Physics

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

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RR/9/251
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17 October 1885
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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William Grylls Adams

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William Grylls Adams, Letter from William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'Observations on variations of the electromotive force between metals at high temperatures in fused salts' by Thomas Andrews to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 17 October 1885, RR/9/251, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_251/letter-from-william-grylls-adams-on-a-paper-observations-on-variations-of-the-electromotive-force-between-metals-at-high-temperatures-in-fused-salts-by-thomas-andrews-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 18 September 2024

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