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Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of air and salt vapours' by Harold Albert Wilson

Reference number: RR/15/287

Date: April 1901

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper seems more suitable for the Philosophical Magazine. It is of too slight a character and some of the conclusions appear to be based on insufficient experimental evidence. The investigation of important points is left incomplete and the explanations are too vague and hypothetical. Some obvious sources of error are not mentioned.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1901].

Endorsed on verso as received 2 April 1901.

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RR/15/287
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April 1901
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Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of air and salt vapours' by Harold Albert Wilson, April 1901, RR/15/287, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_287/referees-report-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-on-a-paper-the-electrical-conductivity-of-air-and-salt-vapours-by-harold-albert-wilson, accessed on 11 February 2026

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