NLB/6/532
Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Dr Hermann Johann Phillipp Sprengel, Fellow of the Royal Society, Terling Place Witham, Essex
29 May 1892
NLB/6/925
Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Carey Foster
19 September 1892
NLB/7/67
Statement as to the explosibility of wet guncotton through cumulative detonation by Hermann Johann Phillipp Sprengel
16 November 1892
NLB/7/332
Memoranda with reference to a statement submitted to the Council of the Royal Society by Dr Hermann Johann Phillipp Sprengel, from Frederick Augustus Abel
13 December 1892
NLB/7/460
Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]
22 February 1893
Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius
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