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Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The testing of plane surfaces' by P E Shaw

Reference number: RR/18/180

Date: December 1911

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1912].

Endorsed on verso as received 14 December 1911.

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RR/18/180
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December 1911
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4 pages
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Charles Vernon Boys

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Charles Vernon Boys, Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'The testing of plane surfaces' by P E Shaw, December 1911, RR/18/180, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_18_180/referees-report-by-charles-vernon-boys-on-a-paper-the-testing-of-plane-surfaces-by-p-e-shaw, accessed on 22 July 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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