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Reference numberRR/9/238
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Arthur Schuster, on his Bakerian Lecture 'Experiments on the discharge of electricity through gases. Sketch of a theory' to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Date7 May 1884
DescriptionAsks for the paper to be considered an abstract, and his pencil-marked annotations should be added to the paper. He feels it cannot be cut down further without being 'unintelligible'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1884].
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1884.0038
Related records in the catalogueRR/9/139
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6483Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist1851 - 1934
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