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Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The evaporation of water in a current of air' by Edgar Philip Perman

Reference number: RR/16/90

Date: March 1903

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. A good deal of the historical portion might be omitted. Does not discuss modification. Both illustrations should be reproduced but in a much reduced size. In general he thinks the method familiar and the author's verification does not mark a great advance in accuracy. The results for the vapour pressure are too exact considering that they are obtained by assuming the relative density constant which is certainly not true.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1903]

Endorsed on verso as received 7 March 1903.

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Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The evaporation of water in a current of air' by Edgar Philip Perman, March 1903, RR/16/90, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_90/referees-report-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-on-a-paper-the-evaporation-of-water-in-a-current-of-air-by-edgar-philip-perman, accessed on 25 June 2025

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

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