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Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'The spectrum of gamma cygni' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and F E Basendall

Reference number: RR/15/366

Date: 06 January 1903

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full and does not require modification. There are no illustrations. The published wave-lengths of the are element scandium, are not sufficiently determined to justify the author's use of this element and many of the strong lines ascribed to scandium are due to ytterbium. Queries other observed lines and the identities ascribed to them. The form is annotated that these general remarks should be sent to the authors.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1903].

Endorsed on verso as received 8 January 1903.

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06 January 1903
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William Crookes, Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'The spectrum of gamma cygni' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and F E Basendall, 06 January 1903, RR/15/366, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_366/referees-report-by-william-crookes-on-a-paper-the-spectrum-of-gamma-cygni-by-joseph-norman-lockyer-and-f-e-basendall, accessed on 13 September 2026

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