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Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the mechanical conditions of a swarm of meteorites, and on theories of cosmogony' by George Howard Darwin

Reference number: RR/10/142

Date: 28 March 1888

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work of Joseph Norman Lockyer and Pierre-Simon Laplace.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1889]

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RR/10/142
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28 March 1888
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph John Thomson

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Joseph John Thomson, Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the mechanical conditions of a swarm of meteorites, and on theories of cosmogony' by George Howard Darwin, 28 March 1888, RR/10/142, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_142/referees-report-by-joseph-john-thomson-on-a-paper-on-the-mechanical-conditions-of-a-swarm-of-meteorites-and-on-theories-of-cosmogony-by-george-howard-darwin, accessed on 14 December 2024

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