Record

Reference numberRR/8/4
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet
Date23 April [1877]
DescriptionHas enquired at the Bodleian Library about the book by François-Joseph Fétis 'Histoire Generale de la Musique Volume II' of 1869, which they do not have, but have placed it on order.

Subject: Mathematics, Music

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1877]
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1876.0079 Vol.25 1877
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7137Bosanquet; Robert Holford Macdowall (1841 - 1912)1841 - 1912
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist1819 - 1903
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