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Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'On the total solar eclipse, August 30, 1905' by Joseph Norman Lockyer

Reference number: RR/17/57

Date: 03 July 1906

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the author be asked to submit an abridged version for the Proceedings. As it stands, the facts in the paper need revision if they are not to give 'unnecessary trouble' to any reader ' who might wish to gain information about the phenomena referred to'. Reviewer offers to point these facts out if required.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 4 July 1906.

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RR/17/57
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03 July 1906
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2 pages
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Hugh Frank Newall, Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'On the total solar eclipse, August 30, 1905' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 03 July 1906, RR/17/57, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_57/referees-report-by-hugh-frank-newall-on-a-paper-on-the-total-solar-eclipse-august-30-1905-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 10 December 2024

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