Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 6 March 1866
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 610
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the view of "the most eminent physicist that Scotland Possesses", Lord Kelvin, that a paper by Mr (Douglas) Heath is full of glaring errors and that Croll expects the Philosophical Magazine for the following month to have something further on the subject, 6 March 1866.
Dates
- 6 March 1866
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Extent
1 letter
- Croll, James, 1821-1890 (physical geologist and Keeper of Maps and Correspondence, Geological Survey of Scotland)
- Heath, Douglas Denon, 1811-1897 (English barrister and judge | classical and mathematical scholar)
- Philosophical Magazine
- Physicists
- Thomson, Sir William, 1824-1907 (1st Baron Kelvin | mathematical physicist and Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow 1846-1899)
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