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RefNoNLB/31/192
AltRefNoNLB/31 p105
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Bryan Cookson
Date7 July 1905
DescriptionA Mackinnon Research Studentship has been awarded to Cookson for continuation of an investigation of the constant of aberration and of the variation of latitude with the floating zenith telescope, a determination of the mass and compression of Jupiter, and of corrections to the elements of the orbits of the satellites from the Cape series of 45 photographs.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
PhysicalDescriptionTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6174Geikie; Sir; Archibald (1835 - 1924)1835 - 1924
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