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Reference numberAP/39/18
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished letter, regarding terrestrial magnetism from R Wolf to Edward Sabine
CreatorWolf; R (fl 1857)
Date7 March 1857
DescriptionWolf describes his observations on the connections between sunspots and variations in terrestrial magnetism.

Annotations in pencil. Marked on front as 'Proc [Proceedings]'.

Subject: Physics / Magnetism

Communicated by Sabine.

Written by Wolf in Zurich.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Extract of a letter addressed to General Sabine, R. A. Treas. and V. P. R. S., by M. R. Wolf, dated Zurich, March 7, 1857. Communicated by Gen. Sabine'.
LanguageFrench
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0106
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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