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Letter from Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the luni-solar variations of magnetic declination and horizontal force at Bombay, and of declination at Trevandrum' by Charles Chambers to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh

Reference number: RR/9/339

Date: 19 October 1886

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He has enclosed some further remarks on the paper. He believes the author is 'thoroughly honest and a hard worker but a man of a somewhat peculiar mind'. The author 'underestimates' the importance of John Allan Broun.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1886].

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RR/9/339
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19 October 1886
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Balfour Stewart

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Balfour Stewart, Letter from Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the luni-solar variations of magnetic declination and horizontal force at Bombay, and of declination at Trevandrum' by Charles Chambers to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, 19 October 1886, RR/9/339, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_339/letter-from-balfour-stewart-on-a-paper-on-the-luni-solar-variations-of-magnetic-declination-and-horizontal-force-at-bombay-and-of-declination-at-trevandrum-by-charles-chambers-to-john-william-strutt-lord-rayleigh, accessed on 14 December 2024

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