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Referee's report by William de Wiveleslie Abney, on a paper 'The preparation of eye-preserving glass for spectacles' by William Crookes

Reference number: RR/20/27

Date: November 1913

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, would be better placed in Proceedings.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1914].

Endorsed on verso as received 18 November 1913.

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RR/20/27
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November 1913
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William de Wiveleslie Abney

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William de Wiveleslie Abney, Referee's report by William de Wiveleslie Abney, on a paper 'The preparation of eye-preserving glass for spectacles' by William Crookes, November 1913, RR/20/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_20_27/referees-report-by-william-de-wiveleslie-abney-on-a-paper-the-preparation-of-eye-preserving-glass-for-spectacles-by-william-crookes, accessed on 07 December 2024

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