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Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the determination of the specific resistance of mercury in absolute measure' by John Viriamu Jones

Reference number: RR/10/359

Date: 1890

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The method is ingenious and appears to have succeeded. The drawings of the apparatus should be printed.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

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

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RR/10/359
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1890
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Letter on paper
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6 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, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the determination of the specific resistance of mercury in absolute measure' by John Viriamu Jones, 1890, RR/10/359, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_359/referees-report-by-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-on-a-paper-on-the-determination-of-the-specific-resistance-of-mercury-in-absolute-measure-by-john-viriamu-jones, accessed on 19 January 2025

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