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Referee's report by William Huggins, on a paper 'On the wave-lengths of lines in the secondary spectrum of hydrogen' by Herbert Edmeston Watson

Reference number: RR/17/452

Date: February 1909

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, with no modifications.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1909].

Endorsed on verso as received 23 February 1909.

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RR/17/452
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February 1909
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William Huggins, Referee's report by William Huggins, on a paper 'On the wave-lengths of lines in the secondary spectrum of hydrogen' by Herbert Edmeston Watson, February 1909, RR/17/452, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_452/referees-report-by-william-huggins-on-a-paper-on-the-wave-lengths-of-lines-in-the-secondary-spectrum-of-hydrogen-by-herbert-edmeston-watson, accessed on 10 July 2025

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