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Reference numberPT/7/1
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On a new detonating compound' in a letter from Sir H [Humphry] Davy to Right Hon Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks
Date[1812]
DescriptionA binding error has resulted in the final page of this manuscript being inserted into the volume after page 4 of PT/7/2.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new detonating compound, in a letter from Sir Humphry Davy, LL. D. F. R.S. to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S'.

Read 5 November 1812.

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 1, 1832.
Extent10p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0257
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1813.0002
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8200Davy; Sir; Humphry (1778 - 1829); chemist1778 - 1829
NA8116Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist1744 - 1820
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