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Referee's report by William de Wivelselie Abney, on a paper 'Total eclipse of the sun, 1896.— The Novaya-Zemlya observations' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and George Baden-Powell

Reference number: RR/13/60

Date: December 1896

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as the plates could not be reproduced in Proceedings.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1897].

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RR/13/60
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December 1896
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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William de Wiveleslie Abney

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William de Wiveleslie Abney, Referee's report by William de Wivelselie Abney, on a paper 'Total eclipse of the sun, 1896.— The Novaya-Zemlya observations' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and George Baden-Powell, December 1896, RR/13/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_60/referees-report-by-william-de-wivelselie-abney-on-a-paper-total-eclipse-of-the-sun-1896-the-novaya-zemlya-observations-by-joseph-norman-lockyer-and-george-baden-powell, accessed on 13 January 2025

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