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Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on a paper 'A case of abnormal trichromatic colour vision due to a shift in the spectrum of the green-sensation curve' by William de Wiveleslie Abney and W Watson

Reference number: RR/20/1

Date: July 1913

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, with modifications.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1913].

Endorsed on verso as received 12 July 1913.

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RR/20/1
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July 1913
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John Henry Poynting, Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on a paper 'A case of abnormal trichromatic colour vision due to a shift in the spectrum of the green-sensation curve' by William de Wiveleslie Abney and W Watson, July 1913, RR/20/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_20_1/referees-report-by-john-henry-poynting-on-a-paper-a-case-of-abnormal-trichromatic-colour-vision-due-to-a-shift-in-the-spectrum-of-the-green-sensation-curve-by-william-de-wiveleslie-abney-and-w-watson, accessed on 12 October 2024

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