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Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'Note on the specific heat of water' by William Robert Bousfield

Reference number: RR/24/19

Date: June 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is controversial, but the views are expressed moderately and succinctly.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1917]

Endorsed on verso as received 26 June 1917.

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RR/24/19
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June 1917
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2 pages
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Hugh Longbourne Callendar

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Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'Note on the specific heat of water' by William Robert Bousfield, June 1917, RR/24/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_19/referees-report-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-on-a-paper-note-on-the-specific-heat-of-water-by-william-robert-bousfield, accessed on 15 October 2024

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