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Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'An approximate estimate of the constituents of water' by William Robert Bousfield

Reference number: RR/21/33

Date: December 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Criticises the assumptions made by the author. Refers to work by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, with which he does not agree. The results and conclusions are interesting and may justify further investigation. Hopes the author may publish his investigations, with modifications, elsewhere.

[Not published]

Endorsed on recto as received 16 December 1914.

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RR/21/33
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December 1914
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Letter on paper
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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Frederick George Donnan

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Frederick George Donnan, Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'An approximate estimate of the constituents of water' by William Robert Bousfield, December 1914, RR/21/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_33/referees-report-by-frederick-george-donnan-on-a-paper-an-approximate-estimate-of-the-constituents-of-water-by-william-robert-bousfield, accessed on 20 September 2024

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