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Referee's report by Edward James Stone, on a paper 'On the determination of the photometric intensity of the coronal light during the solar eclipse of April 16th, 1893' by William De Wiveleslie Abney and Thomas Edward Thorpe

Reference number: RR/13/2

Date: 19 May 1896

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. He isn't sure if the Royal Society can afford the expenses that the paper requires, given the amount of diagrams.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1896].

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RR/13/2
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19 May 1896
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward James Stone

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Edward James Stone, Referee's report by Edward James Stone, on a paper 'On the determination of the photometric intensity of the coronal light during the solar eclipse of April 16th, 1893' by William De Wiveleslie Abney and Thomas Edward Thorpe, 19 May 1896, RR/13/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_2/referees-report-by-edward-james-stone-on-a-paper-on-the-determination-of-the-photometric-intensity-of-the-coronal-light-during-the-solar-eclipse-of-april-16th-1893-by-william-de-wiveleslie-abney-and-thomas-edward-thorpe, accessed on 20 January 2026

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