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RefNoRR/7/62
LevelItem
TitleLetter from William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On a searcher for aplanatic images applied to microscopes, and its effects in increasing power and improving definition' by George Royston Pigott to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Date7 June 1870
DescriptionComments on a letter he was sent from the Royal Society regarding the paper. He has now removed his objection to the paper being published. Although he still believes Listing's paper should be recognised, he now recommends the paper for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as it contains 'valuable results'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1870].
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1870.0025
RelatedRecordRR/7/61
RR/7/63
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7152Miller; William Hallowes (1801 - 1880)1801 - 1880
NA5544Royston-Pigott; George West (? 1817 - 1889)? 1817 - 1889
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