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Reference numberPT/58/2
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'On the structure and motion of glaciers' by John Tyndall and T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley
DateJanuary 1857
Description82 manuscript pages including 11 figures.

Subject: Geology / Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the structure and motion of glaciers'.

Written by Tyndall and Huxley at the Royal Institution. Received and read by the Royal Society on 15 January 1857.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 8, 1857.
Extent82p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0088
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1857.0016
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8293Tyndall; John (1820 - 1893); natural philosopher1820 - 1893
NA8243Huxley; Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895)1825 - 1895
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