Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Investigation of the law of burning of modified cordite' by Major J H Mansell
Reference number: RR/17/68
Date: December 1906
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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry
Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests that author be asked if either curve or table could be omitted, owing to expense of publishing these types of diagram. Questions whether experiments with Cordite 'is strictly natural knowledge which it is the business of the Royal Society to further'.
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]
Endorsed on verso as received 19 December 1906.
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- RR/17/68
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- December 1906
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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Charles Vernon Boys, Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Investigation of the law of burning of modified cordite' by Major J H Mansell, December 1906, RR/17/68, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_68/referees-report-by-charles-vernon-boys-on-a-paper-investigation-of-the-law-of-burning-of-modified-cordite-by-major-j-h-mansell, accessed on 15 May 2025
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VI. Investigation of the law of burning of modified cordite External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 1st January 1908
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1908.0006
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Referee's report by Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock, on a paper 'Investigation of the law of burning of modified cordite' by Major J H Mansell
Creator: Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock Reference number: RR/17/69
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