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Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the thermal conductivities of single and mixed solids and liquids and their variation with temperature' by Charles Herbert Lees

Reference number: RR/13/210

Date: 27 December 1897

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, with modifications. Not all of the numerical tables should be printed and the theory of the model is not of much value. The conclusions at the end 'are based upon too few bodies to have much value' and are not useful.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1898].

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RR/13/210
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27 December 1897
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Typescript

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Charles Vernon Boys

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Charles Vernon Boys, Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the thermal conductivities of single and mixed solids and liquids and their variation with temperature' by Charles Herbert Lees, 27 December 1897, RR/13/210, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_210/referees-report-by-charles-vernon-boys-on-a-paper-on-the-thermal-conductivities-of-single-and-mixed-solids-and-liquids-and-their-variation-with-temperature-by-charles-herbert-lees, accessed on 15 October 2024

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