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Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Note on the motional electromotive force of insulators' by S J Barnett

Reference number: RR/21/23

Date: 10 March 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

No clear statement regarding publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is a continuation of an earlier one by the same author ['Note on Dr. H. A. Wilson’s memoir “On the electric effect of rotating a dielectric in a magnetic field.”', Proceedings, Vol.76 1905, DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1905.0038]. Refers to work by Joseph Larmor and Harold Albert Wilson, with whom the author is in a disagreement over nomenclature. Cannot see any purpose in publishing the current paper.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 12 March 1914.

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RR/21/23
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10 March 1914
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Hector Munro Macdonald, Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Note on the motional electromotive force of insulators' by S J Barnett, 10 March 1914, RR/21/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_23/referees-report-by-hector-munro-macdonald-on-a-paper-note-on-the-motional-electromotive-force-of-insulators-by-s-j-barnett, accessed on 24 January 2025

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