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Referee's report by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on a paper 'On the determination of the boiling-point of sulphur, and on a method of standardising platinum resistance thermometers by reference to it.—Experiments made at the Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge' by Hugh Longbourne Callendar and Ernest Howard Griffiths

Reference number: RR/10/330

Date: 20 January 1891

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1891]

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RR/10/330
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20 January 1891
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Bellamy Clifton

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Robert Bellamy Clifton, Referee's report by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on a paper 'On the determination of the boiling-point of sulphur, and on a method of standardising platinum resistance thermometers by reference to it.—Experiments made at the Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge' by Hugh Longbourne Callendar and Ernest Howard Griffiths, 20 January 1891, RR/10/330, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_330/referees-report-by-robert-bellamy-clifton-on-a-paper-on-the-determination-of-the-boiling-point-of-sulphur-and-on-a-method-of-standardising-platinum-resistance-thermometers-by-reference-to-itexperiments-made-at-the-cavendish-laboratory-cambridge-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-and-ernest-howard-griffiths, accessed on 17 March 2025

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