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Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the photographic spectra of some of the brighter stars' by Joseph Norman Lockyer

Reference number: RR/11/182

Date: 13 January 1893

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Even if the hypothesis is right or wrong, it serves as a basis for the coordination of facts and the author has undertaken an enormous amount of work on a difficult subject.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1893].

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RR/11/182
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13 January 1893
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Report on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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George Howard Darwin

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George Howard Darwin, Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the photographic spectra of some of the brighter stars' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 13 January 1893, RR/11/182, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_182/referees-report-by-george-howard-darwin-on-a-paper-on-the-photographic-spectra-of-some-of-the-brighter-stars-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 10 February 2026

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