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Referee's report by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, on a paper 'The accurate measurement of ionic velocities' by R B Denison and Bertram Dillon Steele

Reference number: RR/16/294

Date: October 1905

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. There are only two figures, both of which should be reproduced. On an appended page Whetham lists seven changes which he thinks desirable, with references to the page of the original paper.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1906].

Endorsed on verso as received 31 October 1905.

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RR/16/294
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October 1905
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Standardised form (type A) and note on paper
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3 pages
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William Cecil Dampier Whetham, Referee's report by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, on a paper 'The accurate measurement of ionic velocities' by R B Denison and Bertram Dillon Steele, October 1905, RR/16/294, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_294/referees-report-by-william-cecil-dampier-whetham-on-a-paper-the-accurate-measurement-of-ionic-velocities-by-r-b-denison-and-bertram-dillon-steele, accessed on 24 June 2025

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