| RefNo | MC/12/43 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from G D [George Downing] Liveing and James Dewar, Cambridge, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society] |
| Creator | Liveing; George Downing (1827-1924); British chemist |
| Dewar; Sir; James (1842-1923); British chemist; physicist |
| Date | 9 May 1880 |
| Description | Responding to [Joseph Norman] Lockyer's note on the carbon spectrum. Liveing and Dewar claim that Lockyer misquoted from the confidential proof rather than the published version of their paper.
The fourth page contains a draft response.
[For both papers, see related materials.] |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1879.0129
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1879.0151 |
| RelatedRecord | MC/12/47 |
| MS/427/34 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1468 | Liveing; George Downing (1827 - 1924) | 1827 - 1924 |
| NA5870 | Dewar; Sir; James (1842 - 1923); chemist and physicist | 1842 - 1923 |
| NA8243 | Huxley; Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895) | 1825 - 1895 |