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RefNoAP/19/11
Previous numbersAP.19.11
LevelFile
TitleUnpublished letter, 'An account of the water of the well Zem Zem with a qualitative analysis of the same by Professor [Michael] Faraday' from John Davidson to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Date1835
DescriptionDavidson analyses a sample of water collected from the well Zem-Zem at Jedda [Jeddah, Saudi Arabia]. Includes a letter from Faraday dated 3 April 1835.
Written by Davidson at St James Street [London].

Subject: Hydrology

Received and read 14 May 1835.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of the water of the well Zem-zem, with a qualitative analysis of the same by Professor Faraday; in a letter from John Davidson, Esq., to the Secretaries, and communicated by them'.
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0204
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8218Faraday; Michael (1791 - 1867); natural philosopher1791 - 1867
NA6370Davidson; John (1797 - 1836)1797 - 1836
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