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Referee's report by Dugald Clerk, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures' by William Arthur Bone, Hamilton Davies, H H Gray, Herbert H Henstock and J B Dawson

Reference number: RR/21/25

Date: March 1915

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper falls below the standards of the Royal Society. The experiments are incomplete. Refers to work by Joseph Ernest Petavel and C W Cook [?].

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1915]

Endorsed on verso as received 12 March 1915.

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RR/21/25
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March 1915
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Dugald Clerk, Referee's report by Dugald Clerk, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures' by William Arthur Bone, Hamilton Davies, H H Gray, Herbert H Henstock and J B Dawson, March 1915, RR/21/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_25/referees-report-by-dugald-clerk-on-a-paper-gaseous-combustion-at-high-pressures-by-william-arthur-bone-hamilton-davies-h-h-gray-herbert-h-henstock-and-j-b-dawson, accessed on 15 January 2025

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