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From J. W. Strutt   [after 20 May 1871?]

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Criticises a book [W. M. Williams, The fuel of the sun (1870)] whose author does not understand thermodynamics, spectrum analysis, and W. Thomson’s papers.

Author:  John William Strutt, 3d Baron Rayleigh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 20 May 1871?]
Classmark:  DAR 176: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7787
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Journal of researches

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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…

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