Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on four papers 'Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay, 'The liquefaction and solidification of argon' by K Olszewski, 'On the spectra of argon' by William Crookes, 'On the spark spectrum of argon as it appears in the spark spectrum of air' by Walter Noel Hartley, and a letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Reference number: RR/12/395
Date: 13 February 1895
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First paper: Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1895]
Second paper: Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1895]
Third paper: Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1895]
Fourth paper: Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Suggests the author apply the corrections to which he refers.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1895]
Letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh. If the theory raised requires further publicity, a full report could be printed in the Chemical News, or as a footnote to the paper by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay.
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- 13 February 1895
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Thomas Edward Thorpe, Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on four papers 'Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay, 'The liquefaction and solidification of argon' by K Olszewski, 'On the spectra of argon' by William Crookes, 'On the spark spectrum of argon as it appears in the spark spectrum of air' by Walter Noel Hartley, and a letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 13 February 1895, RR/12/395, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_395/referees-report-by-thomas-edward-thorpe-on-four-papers-argon-a-new-constituent-of-the-atmosphere-by-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-and-william-ramsay-the-liquefaction-and-solidification-of-argon-by-k-olszewski-on-the-spectra-of-argon-by-william-crookes-on-the-spark-spectrum-of-argon-as-it-appears-in-the-spark-spectrum-of-air-by-walter-noel-hartley-and-a-letter-from-george-francis-fitzgerald-to-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh, accessed on 21 May 2026
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Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on four papers 'Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay, 'The liquefaction and solidification of argon' by K Olszewski, 'On the spectra of argon' by William Crookes, 'On the spark spectrum of argon as it appears in the spark spectrum of air' by Walter Noel Hartley, and a letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
Creator: John Henry Poynting Reference number: RR/12/396
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