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Referee's report by William Henry Mahoney Christie, on a paper 'On the causes which produce the phenomena of new stars' by Joseph Norman Lockyer

Reference number: RR/11/63

Date: 14 January 1981

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Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper should be 'greatly condensed' before it is published. Its current length is disproportionate to the results it discovers.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1891].

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RR/11/63
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14 January 1981
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Report on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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William Henry Mahoney Christie

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William Henry Mahoney Christie, Referee's report by William Henry Mahoney Christie, on a paper 'On the causes which produce the phenomena of new stars' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 14 January 1981, RR/11/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_63/referees-report-by-william-henry-mahoney-christie-on-a-paper-on-the-causes-which-produce-the-phenomena-of-new-stars-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 20 July 2025

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