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Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'The accurate determination of carbonic acid and moisture in air' by John Scott Haldane and Marcus Seymour Pembrey

Reference number: RR/10/267

Date: 15 May 1889

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Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The paper contains nothing new. The apparatus is twenty five years out of date, the experimental method has moved on since the use of corks.

Subject: Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1890]

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RR/10/267
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15 May 1889
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Frankland

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Edward Frankland, Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'The accurate determination of carbonic acid and moisture in air' by John Scott Haldane and Marcus Seymour Pembrey, 15 May 1889, RR/10/267, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_267/referees-report-by-edward-frankland-on-a-paper-the-accurate-determination-of-carbonic-acid-and-moisture-in-air-by-john-scott-haldane-and-marcus-seymour-pembrey, accessed on 14 September 2024

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