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Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Colour photometry.—Part II. The measurement of reflected colours' by William De Wiveleslie Abney and Edward Robert Festing

Reference number: RR/10/118

Date: 1888

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Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The paper is poorly written and some of the observations have little novelty.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1888]

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RR/10/118
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1888
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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John William Strutt

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John William Strutt, Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Colour photometry.—Part II. The measurement of reflected colours' by William De Wiveleslie Abney and Edward Robert Festing, 1888, RR/10/118, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_118/referees-report-by-john-william-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-colour-photometrypart-ii-the-measurement-of-reflected-colours-by-william-de-wiveleslie-abney-and-edward-robert-festing, accessed on 25 June 2025

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