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Referee's report by John Evans, on a paper 'Niagara falls as a chronometer of geological time' by J W Spencer

Reference number: RR/12/242

Date: 18 June 1894

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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the paper is more suitable for a geological journal, or a North American society such as the Smithsonian Institution or the Geological Survey of the United States of America, especially as the author is the State Geologist for Georgia. The abstract published in the Proceedings will suffice.

Subject: Geology

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1894]

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RR/12/242
Earliest possible date
18 June 1894
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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John Evans

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John Evans, Referee's report by John Evans, on a paper 'Niagara falls as a chronometer of geological time' by J W Spencer, 18 June 1894, RR/12/242, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_242/referees-report-by-john-evans-on-a-paper-niagara-falls-as-a-chronometer-of-geological-time-by-j-w-spencer, accessed on 15 June 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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