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RefNoNLB/71/743
AltRefNoNLB/71 p380
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editor, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 80 Regents Street, W1
Date20 October 1928
DescriptionInforms the Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to anticipate permission to reproduce figure 2 from a paper ['VIII. Some observations on Welwitschia mirabilis, Hooker, f'] by Prof. [Henry Harold Welch] Pearson in Transactions B.198. Explains that the author is dead and there will be no need to trace the heirs. Seeks clarification over a reference to 'The Magnetic Balance of Wills and Hector' from Transactions 1924, Physical Review, explaining that there are no papers by these authors in that publication.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialhttps://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1906.0008
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