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Reference numberPT/58/2/11
LevelItem
TitlePlate, trough representing a narrow gorge by unknown artist
Date[1857]
DescriptionFigure 15 (unpublished) showing a wooden trough representing a narrow gorge through which circles of ice were passed to observe how their form changed.

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.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
Physical descriptionInk diagram on paper
Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0088
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1857.0016
Related records in the catalogueRR/3/267
PT/58/2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8293Tyndall; John (1820 - 1893); natural philosopher1820 - 1893
NA8243Huxley; Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895)1825 - 1895
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