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Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Experiments on some properties' by James Wimshurt

Reference number: RR/15/288

Date: 07 May 1901

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Sectional Committee: not stated.

Not recommended for publication in Proceedings, as the experiments, though of considerable interest, are not clearly described, nor are they arried for enough to warrant the conclusions which the author based upon them. The author should be given the opportunity to withdraw the paper.

[Not published].

Endorsed on recto as received 9 May 1901.

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RR/15/288
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07 May 1901
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Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Experiments on some properties' by James Wimshurt, 07 May 1901, RR/15/288, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_288/referees-report-by-silvanus-phillips-thompson-on-a-paper-experiments-on-some-properties-by-james-wimshurt, accessed on 05 October 2024

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