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Referee's report by Andrew Gray, on a paper 'A new current weigher and a determination of the electromotive force of the normal Weston cadmium cell' by William Edward Ayrton, Thomas Mather and Frank Edward Smith

Reference number: RR/17/119

Date: 18 July 1907

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Considers the number of illustrations will be costly to reproduce, but cannot see a way to reduce their number without considerable rearrangement of the paper.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 19 July 1907.

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RR/17/119
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18 July 1907
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Andrew Gray, Referee's report by Andrew Gray, on a paper 'A new current weigher and a determination of the electromotive force of the normal Weston cadmium cell' by William Edward Ayrton, Thomas Mather and Frank Edward Smith, 18 July 1907, RR/17/119, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_119/referees-report-by-andrew-gray-on-a-paper-a-new-current-weigher-and-a-determination-of-the-electromotive-force-of-the-normal-weston-cadmium-cell-by-william-edward-ayrton-thomas-mather-and-frank-edward-smith, accessed on 10 September 2026

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