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RefNoAP/38/14
LevelItem
TitleLetter, regarding corrections to a paper by Thomas Woods from James P [Prescott] Joule to George Gabriel Stokes
Date21 February 1856
DescriptionJoule writes to offer his corrections on a paper by Dr [Thomas] Woods which was abstracted in the Proceedings of the Royal Society for 10 January 1856 (see AP/38/3): he believes he has been misquoted by Woods in the abstract.

Subject: Chemistry / Physics

Received 22 February 1856. Read 6 March 1856.

This letter was published in full in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Letter from James P. Joule, Esq. F. R. S. to Prof. Stokes, in reference to the paper of Dr. Woods read on the 10th of January 1856'.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0020
RelatedRecordAP/38/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7041Joule; James Prescott (1818 - 1889); physicist1818 - 1889
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)1819 - 1903
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