Letter from William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'The specific heats of air and carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure by the continuous electric method at 20 degrees celsius and 100 degrees celsius' by W F G Swann
Reference number: RR/17/352
Date: 16 June 1909
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Explains that Swann cannot modify his paper according to the referee's instructions, as it would render the paper 'useless' to take these passages out.
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1909].
Letter received 17 June 1909.
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- RR/17/352
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- 16 June 1909
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William Mitchinson Hicks, Letter from William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'The specific heats of air and carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure by the continuous electric method at 20 degrees celsius and 100 degrees celsius' by W F G Swann, 16 June 1909, RR/17/352, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_352/letter-from-william-mitchinson-hicks-on-a-paper-the-specific-heats-of-air-and-carbon-dioxide-at-atmospheric-pressure-by-the-continuous-electric-method-at-20-degrees-celsius-and-100-degrees-celsius-by-w-f-g-swann, accessed on 10 February 2026
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The specific heats of air and carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure, by the continuous electrical method, at 20° C. and at 100° C External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 6th May 1909
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1909.0015
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Referee's report by Ernest Howard Griffiths, on a paper 'The specific heats of air and carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure by the continuous electric method at 20 degrees celsius and 100 degrees celsius' by W F G Swann
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