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Reference numberRR/4/167
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Thomas Romney Robinson on a paper 'Account of experiments made at Holyhead (North Wales) to ascertain the transit-velocity of waves, analogous to earthquake waves, through the local rock formations' by Robert Mallet
Date26 October 1861
DescriptionRecommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The instruments used in the experiment are 'well adapted' to this kind of observation and the corrections are 'well worked', with the exception of one.

Subject: Geology

[Publihsed in Philosophical Transactions, 1861].
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1861.0028
Related records in the cataloguePT.62.7
RR/4/165
RR/4/166
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA2440Robinson; Thomas Romney (1792 - 1882)1792 - 1882
NA3801Mallet; Robert (1810 - 1881)1810 - 1881
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