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Referee's report by John Ambrose Fleming, on a paper 'On a suggested relation between the refractive indices of pure metals and their molecular constants' by W Williams

Reference number: RR/15/282

Date: 25 March 1901

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, but thinks it could be published in full in the Proceedings instead. The paper is not experimental and although very interesting it is confined to the comparison of the results of other workers observations with an empirical formulae given by the author and not deduced from any fundamental principles.

In a typescript letter he explains why he thinks the two official forms sent to him with the paper appear inconsistent. Although the paper is interesting, and may some day become valuable, in testing theoretical views of the nature of electric conductivity, he does not think it marks such a distinct step in natural knowledge as to warrant full publication in the Philosophical Transactions.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 26 March 1901.

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RR/15/282
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25 March 1901
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Standardised form (type A) and letter on paper
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4 pages
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John Ambrose Fleming, Referee's report by John Ambrose Fleming, on a paper 'On a suggested relation between the refractive indices of pure metals and their molecular constants' by W Williams, 25 March 1901, RR/15/282, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_282/referees-report-by-john-ambrose-fleming-on-a-paper-on-a-suggested-relation-between-the-refractive-indices-of-pure-metals-and-their-molecular-constants-by-w-williams, accessed on 19 January 2025

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