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Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'A new portable miner's safety-lamp, with hydrogen attachment for delicate gas-testing; with exact measurements of flame-cap indications furnished by this and other testing lamps' by Frank Clowes

Reference number: RR/11/239

Date: 23 January 1893

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Not recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper would be better published by the kind of society to which the subject relates. It 'does not contain a single observation which can be said to constitute a distinct contribution to natural knowledge'.

Subject: Engineering

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1892].

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RR/11/239
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23 January 1893
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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George Carey Foster, Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'A new portable miner's safety-lamp, with hydrogen attachment for delicate gas-testing; with exact measurements of flame-cap indications furnished by this and other testing lamps' by Frank Clowes, 23 January 1893, RR/11/239, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_239/referees-report-by-george-carey-foster-on-a-paper-a-new-portable-miners-safety-lamp-with-hydrogen-attachment-for-delicate-gas-testing-with-exact-measurements-of-flame-cap-indications-furnished-by-this-and-other-testing-lamps-by-frank-clowes, accessed on 19 July 2025

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