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Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'Report on the total solar eclipse of 1911, April 28. (Observed the expedition of the joint permanent eclipse committee to Vavau, Tonga Islands, South Pacific.)' by A L Cortie

Reference number: RR/19/28

Date: June 1912

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Considers the paper an improvement on previous ones by the author.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1912]

Endorsed on verso as received 12 June 1912.

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RR/19/28
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June 1912
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Frank Watson Dyson, Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'Report on the total solar eclipse of 1911, April 28. (Observed the expedition of the joint permanent eclipse committee to Vavau, Tonga Islands, South Pacific.)' by A L Cortie, June 1912, RR/19/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_28/referees-report-by-frank-watson-dyson-on-a-paper-report-on-the-total-solar-eclipse-of-1911-april-28-observed-the-expedition-of-the-joint-permanent-eclipse-committee-to-vavau-tonga-islands-south-pacific-by-a-l-cortie, accessed on 13 March 2026

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