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Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on a paper 'The electrical ignition of gaseous mixtures' by W M Thornton

Reference number: RR/21/149

Date: February 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests publication in the Proceedings. The paper might be made suitable for the Philosophical Transactions if shortened in places. The style is similar to a paper by an engineer. Suggests publishing the experimental description in full, but shortening the speculative section.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 26 February 1914.

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RR/21/149
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February 1914
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John Allen Harker, Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on a paper 'The electrical ignition of gaseous mixtures' by W M Thornton, February 1914, RR/21/149, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_149/referees-report-by-john-allen-harker-on-a-paper-the-electrical-ignition-of-gaseous-mixtures-by-w-m-thornton, accessed on 11 July 2025

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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