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Referee's report by Robert Stawell Ball, on a paper 'Preliminary report on the results obtained with the prismatic cameras during the total eclipse of the Sun, April 16, 1893' by Joseph Norman Lockyer

Reference number: RR/12/188

Date: 28 April 1894

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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the Proceedings, as the paper is of a preliminary character, with the full discussion of the results to form a later memoir.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Astronomy

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1894]

Reference number
RR/12/188
Earliest possible date
28 April 1894
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Stawell Ball

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Robert Stawell Ball, Referee's report by Robert Stawell Ball, on a paper 'Preliminary report on the results obtained with the prismatic cameras during the total eclipse of the Sun, April 16, 1893' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 28 April 1894, RR/12/188, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_188/referees-report-by-robert-stawell-ball-on-a-paper-preliminary-report-on-the-results-obtained-with-the-prismatic-cameras-during-the-total-eclipse-of-the-sun-april-16-1893-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 20 July 2025

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