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Referee's report by Alexander Scott, on a paper 'The relative atomic weights of nitrogen and sulphur' by F P Burt and F L Usher

Reference number: RR/18/17

Date: June 1910

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, the paper would be 'utterly out of place'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1911].

Endorsed on verso as received 29 June 1910

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RR/18/17
Earliest possible date
June 1910
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Standardised form (type A) and notes on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander Scott

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Alexander Scott, Referee's report by Alexander Scott, on a paper 'The relative atomic weights of nitrogen and sulphur' by F P Burt and F L Usher, June 1910, RR/18/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_18_17/referees-report-by-alexander-scott-on-a-paper-the-relative-atomic-weights-of-nitrogen-and-sulphur-by-f-p-burt-and-f-l-usher, accessed on 22 January 2025

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