| RefNo | PT/30/8 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Extract, 'On the action of the rays of the spectrum on vegetable juices' from a letter from Mrs M [Mary] Somerville to Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel |
| Creator | Somerville [nee Fairfax; other married name Greig]; Mary (1780-1872); Scottish science writer and mathematics expositor |
| Date | 20 September 1845 |
| Description | 12 manuscript pages including 17 figures.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the action of the rays of the spectrum on vegetable juices. Extract of a letter from Mrs. M. Somerville to Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., dated Rome, September 20, 1845. Communicated by Sir J. Herschel'.
Written by Somerville in Rome [Italy]. Communicated by Herschel. Received by the Royal Society on 6 November 1845. Read 27 November 1845.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851. |
| Extent | 12p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0064 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1846.0009 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |