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Referee's report by Herbert McLeod, on a paper 'Combustion in dried oxygen' by Herbert Brereton Baker

Reference number: RR/10/240

Date: 27 August 1888

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work of Dixon and Cowper. Suggests better references be made between this paper and another in the Chemical Society.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

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

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RR/10/240
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27 August 1888
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Herbert McLeod

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Herbert McLeod, Referee's report by Herbert McLeod, on a paper 'Combustion in dried oxygen' by Herbert Brereton Baker, 27 August 1888, RR/10/240, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_240/referees-report-by-herbert-mcleod-on-a-paper-combustion-in-dried-oxygen-by-herbert-brereton-baker, accessed on 19 March 2025

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