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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, so long as it is revised by the author and send back for further inspection. It contains the record of a 'laborious and painstaking' investigation and the method used, though ingenious, is a serious defect in the paper.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1898].

Reference number
RR/13/216
Earliest possible date
09 February 1898
Physical description
Report on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

George Carey Foster

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George Carey Foster, Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the thermal conductivities of single and mixed solids and liquids and their variation with temperature' by Charles Herbert Lees, 09 February 1898, RR/13/216, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_216/referees-report-by-george-carey-foster-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 21 April 2025

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