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Letter from Philip Kelland
Add. MS a/207/146 · Item · 13 May 1844
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Edinburgh - Thanks WW for his paper ['On the Fundamental Antithesis of Philosophy', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 7, pt. 2, 1845?]: 'The question at issue [between WW and John Herschel] appears to me to be not about the [fact] ofread more

Letter from Philip Kelland
Add. MS a/207/147 · Item · [1836]
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PK would like to read his paper 'On the Elasticity of the Ether in Crystals' next Monday. However, since his paper differs with Augustine Fresnel over a certain point and WW does not approve of any differences with Fresnel's Memoir, he would be happy toread more

MSPB/35 · Item · 2 Dec. 1856
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Lacock - Is not able to offer any introductions at Rome, for the only family he knows of is that of Mrs John Spedding; encloses the remarks on Assyrian inscriptions he could not find when he last wrote; has been conducting mathematical researches,read more

Add. MS a/204/56 · Item · 18 Mar. 1844
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Rome - JDF is pleased he decided to spend the winter abroad, and praises his Edinburgh colleagues (Thomas Henderson and Philip Kelland) who offered to fill in for him while he was absent. At Naples he saw small scale continual eruption within the craterread more

Add. MS a/204/91 · Item · 17 Feb. 1850
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Edinburgh - Thanks WW for his work on induction in answer to John S. Mill ['Of Induction, with Especial Reference to Mr. J. Stuart Mill's System of Logic', 1850]. Further to their work on revising the recommendations of the mathematics and physicsread more