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RefNoRR/69/259
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TitleLetter from Herbert Harold Read, on a paper 'Red sandstones. An experimental study of the conditions under which they may be formed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton
Date17 August 1945
DescriptionDespite his doubts, he has decided to bow to the 'superior chemical knowledge of the Chairman of the Chemistry Committee'. However, the title should be modified as 'the problem of the origin of the red sandstones is a very considerable geological one and Lord Rayleigh's communication hardly touches it'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940 with the amended title 'Experimental production of red and yellow sandstones from chalybeate water'].
Extent1p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1946.0052
RelatedRecordRR/69/257
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1845Read; Herbert Harold (1889 - 1970)1889 - 1970
NA7877Strutt; Robert John (1875 - 1947); 4th Baron Rayleigh1875 - 1947
NA8212Egerton; Sir; Alfred Charles Glyn (1886 - 1959); chemist1886 - 1959
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