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Referee's report by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on a paper 'A compensated interference dilatometer' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton

Reference number: RR/14/100

Date: 01 April 1898

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work of Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, Ernst Karl Abbe and Carl P Pulfrich. The measurements show the great accuracy that can be obtained with the instrument. Suggests adding an illustration of the observing and illuminating apparatus.

Subject: Crystallography, Applied Sciences

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 4 April 1898.

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RR/14/100
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01 April 1898
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6 pages
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Robert Bellamy Clifton, Referee's report by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on a paper 'A compensated interference dilatometer' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, 01 April 1898, RR/14/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_14_100/referees-report-by-robert-bellamy-clifton-on-a-paper-a-compensated-interference-dilatometer-by-alfred-edwin-howard-tutton, accessed on 21 April 2025

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