Records, 1783-1985.

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Records, 1783-1985.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122591208

Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, photographs, memoranda, plans, charters, papers. Correspondents and contributors include: Sir David Brewster, James Clerk Maxwell, Mungo Ponton, William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs), and Peter Guthrie Tait.

38 boxes & 35 volumes.

American Institute of Physics

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Brewster, David, 1781-1868

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