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Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'The magnetic properties of iron when shielded from the Earth's magnetism' by Ernest Wilson

Reference number: RR/21/161

Date: January 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests paper should be shortened. The paper is 'disfigured' by poor grammar and poor language style.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 19 January 1914.

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RR/21/161
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January 1914
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4 pages
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Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'The magnetic properties of iron when shielded from the Earth's magnetism' by Ernest Wilson, January 1914, RR/21/161, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_161/referees-report-by-silvanus-phillips-thompson-on-a-paper-the-magnetic-properties-of-iron-when-shielded-from-the-earths-magnetism-by-ernest-wilson, accessed on 06 September 2026

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