Referees' reports: volume 24, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
Reference number: RR/24
Date: 1917
Description
Containing referee's reports arranged alphabetically by the lead author of the paper submitted to the Royal Society for review in 1917.
Notable referees and authors include Hertha Ayrton, Jagdish Chandra Bose and William Napier Shaw.
When report is on a standard sheet (A), the questions are:
1. Whether the paper should or should not be published in the "Philosophical Transactions"
2. Whether, in the former case, it should be published in full or in part only, the part so to be published being indicated
3. Whether any modifications are necessary or desirable, and, if so, of what nature
4. Which illustrations (if any) accompanying the paper should be reproduced
General remarks
When report is on a standard sheet (C), the questions are:
1. Should the paper be published in the "Proceedings"?
2. If published, should it be printed as it stands, or with modifications?
3. Should all the illustrations be published?
4. If not published, should it be read before the Society?
General remarks
When report is on a standardised form (D), the questions are:
1. Whether or not the paper should be read before the Society
2. Whether the paper should or should not be published by the Society
3. Whether, in the former case, it should be published in the 'Philosophical Transactions' or 'Proceedings'
4. Whether it should be published in full or only in part or whether any material modifications are necessary
5. Which illustrations, if any, accompanying the paper should be reproduced
General remarks
- Reference number
- RR/24
- Earliest possible date
- 1917
- Physical description
- Loose paper in folders
- Page extent
- One box comprising 100 reports
- Format
- Typescript
Manuscript
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Referees' reports: volume 24, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication, 1917, RR/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24/referees-reports-volume-24-peer-reviews-of-scientific-papers-submitted-to-the-royal-society-for-publication, accessed on 03 November 2024
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 100 manuscripts:
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Referee's report by Henry Cabourn Pocklington, on a paper 'The Lommel-Weber function and its application to the problem of electric waves on a thin anchor ring' by J R Airey
January 1918 Creator: Henry Cabourn Pocklington Reference number: RR/24/1 -
Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'Characteristic frequency and atomic number' by Herbert Stanley Allen
June 1917 Creator: William Mitchinson Hicks Reference number: RR/24/2 -
Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'Characteristic frequency and atomic number' by Herbert Stanley Allen
1917 Creator: James Hopwood Jeans Reference number: RR/24/3 -
Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'Electronic frequency and atomic number' by Herbert Stanley Allen
1917 Creator: James Hopwood Jeans Reference number: RR/24/4
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Referees' reports on scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1831- Reference number: RR
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