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Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'The germicidal action of ultra-violet radiation, and its correlation with selective absorption' by Carl Hamilton Browning and Sidney Russ

Reference number: RR/24/23

Date: March 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to work of Theodor Grotthuss, to whose general Grotthuss-Draper Law should be referred in the paper.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 29 March 1917.

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RR/24/23
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March 1917
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William Maddock Bayliss, Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'The germicidal action of ultra-violet radiation, and its correlation with selective absorption' by Carl Hamilton Browning and Sidney Russ, March 1917, RR/24/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_23/referees-report-by-william-maddock-bayliss-on-a-paper-the-germicidal-action-of-ultra-violet-radiation-and-its-correlation-with-selective-absorption-by-carl-hamilton-browning-and-sidney-russ, accessed on 12 July 2025

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