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Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'On different properties of solar radiation producing or preventing a deposit of mercury on silver plates coated with iodine, or compounds with bromine or chlorine, modified by coloured glass media and the vapours of the atmosphere' by Antoine Jean Francois Claudet

Reference number: RR/1/42

Date: 25 June 1847

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1847].

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RR/1/42
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25 June 1847
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'On different properties of solar radiation producing or preventing a deposit of mercury on silver plates coated with iodine, or compounds with bromine or chlorine, modified by coloured glass media and the vapours of the atmosphere' by Antoine Jean Francois Claudet, 25 June 1847, RR/1/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_42/referees-report-by-john-frederick-william-herschel-on-a-paper-on-different-properties-of-solar-radiation-producing-or-preventing-a-deposit-of-mercury-on-silver-plates-coated-with-iodine-or-compounds-with-bromine-or-chlorine-modified-by-coloured-glass-media-and-the-vapours-of-the-atmosphere-by-antoine-jean-francois-claudet, accessed on 07 October 2024

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