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Referee's report by Ernest Howard Griffiths, on a paper 'On the heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures' by Joseph Ernest Petavel

Reference number: RR/14/85

Date: June 1898

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Criticises the author's use of the term 'absolute'. Suggests the curves should be printed at their current scale. Has written a report giving recommendations, which he is happy to be sent to the author, with his name attached for potential correspondence.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 28 June 1898.

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RR/14/85
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June 1898
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Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Typescript

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Ernest Howard Griffiths

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Ernest Howard Griffiths, Referee's report by Ernest Howard Griffiths, on a paper 'On the heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures' by Joseph Ernest Petavel, June 1898, RR/14/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_14_85/referees-report-by-ernest-howard-griffiths-on-a-paper-on-the-heat-dissipated-by-a-platinum-surface-at-high-temperatures-by-joseph-ernest-petavel, accessed on 03 December 2024

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