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Reference numberMC/12/43
LevelItem
TitleLetter from G D [George Downing] Liveing and James Dewar, Cambridge, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]
CreatorLiveing; George Downing (1827-1924); British chemist
Dewar; Sir; James (1842-1923); British chemist; physicist
Date9 May 1880
DescriptionResponding to [Joseph Norman] Lockyer's note on the carbon spectrum. Liveing and Dewar claim that Lockyer misquoted from the confidential proof rather than the published version of their paper.

The fourth page contains a draft response.

[For both papers, see related materials.]
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1879.0129
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1879.0151
Related records in the catalogueMC/12/47
MS/427/34
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1468Liveing; George Downing (1827 - 1924)1827 - 1924
NA5870Dewar; Sir; James (1842 - 1923); chemist and physicist1842 - 1923
NA8243Huxley; Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895)1825 - 1895
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