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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions in full without modification and including all the illustrations. The paper embodies the results of a careful investigation and Professor Perry's appendix contributes a valuable theoretical addition.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1900].

Endorsed on verso as received 13 March 1900.

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RR/15/116
Earliest possible date
March 1900
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Standardised form (type A)
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Michael James Stewart Dewar

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Michael James Stewart Dewar, Referee's report by Michael James Stewart Dewar, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The specific heat of metals and the relation of specific heat to atomic weight. (with an addendum by Prof. Perry)' by Professor William Augustus Tilden, March 1900, RR/15/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_116/referees-report-by-michael-james-stewart-dewar-on-the-bakerian-lecture-the-specific-heat-of-metals-and-the-relation-of-specific-heat-to-atomic-weight-with-an-addendum-by-prof-perry-by-professor-william-augustus-tilden, accessed on 16 February 2025

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