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Referee's report by Herbert Brereton Baker, on a paper 'The production of neon and helium by the electrical discharge' by John Norman Collie, Hubert Sutton Patterson and Irvine Masson

Reference number: RR/21/53

Date: August 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The results of the experiments are currently unexplained. Refers to work of Strutt [John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh?] and Merton [Thomas Ralph Merton?]. As the investigations are ongoing and the results unexplained, concurs with the Committee if the Proceedings is a better place for the paper. 'The whole question is one of the greatest interest and importance and something is bound to emerge sooner or later which will leave its mark'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 25 August 1914.

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Herbert Brereton Baker, Referee's report by Herbert Brereton Baker, on a paper 'The production of neon and helium by the electrical discharge' by John Norman Collie, Hubert Sutton Patterson and Irvine Masson, August 1914, RR/21/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_53/referees-report-by-herbert-brereton-baker-on-a-paper-the-production-of-neon-and-helium-by-the-electrical-discharge-by-john-norman-collie-hubert-sutton-patterson-and-irvine-masson, accessed on 21 June 2025

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