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Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'Report of private expedition to Philippeville, Algeria, to view the total eclipse of the sun, August 30, 1905' by T C Porter and W P Colfox

Reference number: RR/17/77

Date: February 1907

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Recommended for the Proceedings. Agrees with the omissions suggests by the other reviewer [RR/17/76]. '[I] trust the other referee implicitly. He has taken a lot of trouble, I can see'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 12 February 1907.

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RR/17/77
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February 1907
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2 pages
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Herbert Hall Turner, Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'Report of private expedition to Philippeville, Algeria, to view the total eclipse of the sun, August 30, 1905' by T C Porter and W P Colfox, February 1907, RR/17/77, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_77/referees-report-by-herbert-hall-turner-on-a-paper-report-of-private-expedition-to-philippeville-algeria-to-view-the-total-eclipse-of-the-sun-august-30-1905-by-t-c-porter-and-w-p-colfox, accessed on 23 March 2025

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