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Reference numberNLB/19/773
Alternative reference numberNLB/19 p447
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Howard Turnder Barnes, [Fellow of the Royal Society], McGill College, Montreal
Date15 December 1899
DescriptionEncloses a cheque for £10, the amount of the Joule studentship awarded to Barnes for assistance in pursuing an investigation into the specific heat of water in the terms of the electrical units and the variation of the specific heat over the whole range of zero to one hundred degrees centigrade.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Physical descriptionTypescript, very faint
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA4794Barnes; Howard Turner (1873 - 1950); physicist1873 - 1950
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