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Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On a new method of driving off poisonous gases' by Hertha Ayrton

Reference number: RR/24/5

Date: November 1917

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Sectional Committee: Applied Sciences

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The diagrams should be published, but possibly not the photographs. Very desirable that the paper be published at the present time.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1919]

Endorsed on verso as received 27 November 1917.

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RR/24/5
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November 1917
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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John William Strutt

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John William Strutt, Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On a new method of driving off poisonous gases' by Hertha Ayrton, November 1917, RR/24/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_5/referees-report-by-john-william-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-on-a-new-method-of-driving-off-poisonous-gases-by-hertha-ayrton, accessed on 22 January 2025

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