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Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Kipling Joseph Rudyard, Poynting J H, Fisher Osmond, Macmillan & Co , Stefan Josef, Lowell Percival |
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Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William from Broadstone, Dorset, 20 Sep 1907 annotated in WGW's? hand "Mars"; re an interesting press cutting on Lowell and Mars sent by William; enclosing a cutting (not present) about Kipling; Prof Poynting to reply to Lowell's mathematical paper; A. R. Wallace's book (presumably "Is Mars Habitable?") finished, chapter on temperature of Mars sent to Poynting for comment, Mss to go to Macmillan; possibility of mean temperature of planets being affected by rate of rotation, Osmond Fisher's opinion differs from A. R. Wallace's, Stefan's Law. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: OLD REF Letters re books and writing 1903-1907: WP1/19/9/9 |
