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Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'The relative motion of the Earth and the ether' by H A Wilson

Reference number: RR/17/457

Date: January 1910

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Not recommended for publication in Proceedings, certain paragraphs should be omitted.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 20 January 1910.

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RR/17/457
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January 1910
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2 pages
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William Mitchinson Hicks, Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'The relative motion of the Earth and the ether' by H A Wilson, January 1910, RR/17/457, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_457/referees-report-by-william-mitchinson-hicks-on-a-paper-the-relative-motion-of-the-earth-and-the-ether-by-h-a-wilson, accessed on 22 March 2025

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