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Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on paper 'The dependence of the Refractive Index of gases on temperature' by George Walker Walker

Reference number: RR/16/128

Date: March 1903

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Plate one with figures one to four should appear as it is. The other diagrams are illustrations of the accuracy of the work and appear to be needed for finding the refractive index of the gases. Does not think all the lines could be placed on one chart owing to the different scales. Queries if some diagrams may be given as examples for the reader.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1903].

Endorsed on verso as received 23 March 1903.

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Charles Vernon Boys, Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on paper 'The dependence of the Refractive Index of gases on temperature' by George Walker Walker, March 1903, RR/16/128, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_128/referees-report-by-charles-vernon-boys-on-paper-the-dependence-of-the-refractive-index-of-gases-on-temperature-by-george-walker-walker, accessed on 09 July 2025

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