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Referee's report by George Downing Liveing, on a paper 'On the ultimate lines, and the quantities of the elements producing these lines, in spectra of the oxyhydrogen flame and spark' by Walter Noel Hartley and Henry Webster Moss

Reference number: RR/19/63

Date: 19 April 1912

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests corrections for some of the arithmetic. Considers the paper rather loose but with valuable observations.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 20 April 1912.

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RR/19/63
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19 April 1912
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2 pages
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George Downing Liveing

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George Downing Liveing, Referee's report by George Downing Liveing, on a paper 'On the ultimate lines, and the quantities of the elements producing these lines, in spectra of the oxyhydrogen flame and spark' by Walter Noel Hartley and Henry Webster Moss, 19 April 1912, RR/19/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_63/referees-report-by-george-downing-liveing-on-a-paper-on-the-ultimate-lines-and-the-quantities-of-the-elements-producing-these-lines-in-spectra-of-the-oxyhydrogen-flame-and-spark-by-walter-noel-hartley-and-henry-webster-moss, accessed on 20 January 2026

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