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Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'Sunspot Variation in Latitude 1861-1902' by William J S Lockyer

Reference number: RR/16/207

Date: 31 January 1904

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Sectional Committee: [Astronomy]

Recommended for publication in Proceedings It does not go much further than the paper in the monthly notices from which, with acknowledgement, Lockyer takes the data, but he treats the figures in a slightly different way and his analysis is interesting.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1904].

Endorsed on recto as received 1 February 1904.

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RR/16/207
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31 January 1904
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Frank Watson Dyson, Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'Sunspot Variation in Latitude 1861-1902' by William J S Lockyer, 31 January 1904, RR/16/207, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_207/referees-report-by-frank-watson-dyson-on-a-paper-sunspot-variation-in-latitude-1861-1902-by-william-j-s-lockyer, accessed on 22 May 2025

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