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Referee's report by unnamed referee, on a paper 'An account of a line of levels, carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean sea to the river Euphrates' by William Taylor Thompson and William Ainsworth

Reference number: RR/1/244

Date: 24 May 1838

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions as 'the heights are given but the lengths are not'.

Subject: Geology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1837].

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RR/1/244
Earliest possible date
24 May 1838
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Report on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Referee's report by unnamed referee, on a paper 'An account of a line of levels, carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean sea to the river Euphrates' by William Taylor Thompson and William Ainsworth, 24 May 1838, RR/1/244, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_244/referees-report-by-unnamed-referee-on-a-paper-an-account-of-a-line-of-levels-carried-across-northern-syria-from-the-mediterranean-sea-to-the-river-euphrates-by-william-taylor-thompson-and-william-ainsworth, accessed on 20 June 2025

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