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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, although it is rather long but the referee feels than nothing can be cut out.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1918].

Endorsed on verso as received 14 June 1916.

Reference number
RR/23/41
Earliest possible date
June 1916
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker on a paper 'A critical study of spectral series - Part IV -The structure of spark spectra' by William Mitchinson Hicks, June 1916, RR/23/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23_41/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-a-critical-study-of-spectral-series-part-iv-the-structure-of-spark-spectra-by-william-mitchinson-hicks, accessed on 06 February 2025

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