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MS 023 – SUTHERLAND, William (1859-1911)
Physicist and Physical Chemist

Sutherland was a writer for The Age in Melbourne and a private researcher who investigated the viscosity of gases liquids, molecular attraction, valency, ionisation, ionic velocities, atomic sizes and an electronic theory of matter.

Fifty letters to Sutherland from W A Osborne, University of Melbourne, June 1905 - November 1910, discussing scientific experiments

Copy of Poetical licence, a play in 4 acts by WS, 1884

Four water-colour sketches by WS ca 1877-78

Two pencil sketches of WS as a boy and a young man by his father

Photograph of a portrait in pastels of WS by his sister

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