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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions without modification, and all the illustrations are necessary. Wonders if he is a fair referee for this paper as he has had exceptional opportunities of watching the growth of results from the photographs. The paper is very valuable and worthy of the 'Transactions.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1901].

Endorsed on verso as received 15 February 1901.

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RR/15/85
Earliest possible date
February 1901
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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William de Wiveleslie Abney

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William de Wiveleslie Abney, Second referee's report by William de Wiveleslie Abney, on a paper 'Total eclipse of the sun, January 22, 1898, observations at Visiadrug' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, Captain Chisholm-Batten and Alexander Pedler, February 1901, RR/15/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_85/second-referees-report-by-william-de-wiveleslie-abney-on-a-paper-total-eclipse-of-the-sun-january-22-1898-observations-at-visiadrug-by-joseph-norman-lockyer-captain-chisholm-batten-and-alexander-pedler, accessed on 08 November 2024

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