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Referee's report by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, on a paper 'On osmotic pressures derived from vapour-pressure measurements: Aqueous solutions of cane sugar and methyl glucoside' by Randal Thomas Mowbray Rawdon Berkeley, 8th Earl Berkeley, E G J Hartley and C V Burton

Reference number: RR/24/8

Date: March 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the paper could be considerably shortened, as the authors have previously published papers on the very same subject. Suggests ways in which the paper could be shortened.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1919]

Endorsed on verso as received 13 March 1917.

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RR/24/8
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March 1917
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5 pages
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Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, Referee's report by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, on a paper 'On osmotic pressures derived from vapour-pressure measurements: Aqueous solutions of cane sugar and methyl glucoside' by Randal Thomas Mowbray Rawdon Berkeley, 8th Earl Berkeley, E G J Hartley and C V Burton, March 1917, RR/24/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_8/referees-report-by-samuel-walter-johnson-smith-on-a-paper-on-osmotic-pressures-derived-from-vapour-pressure-measurements-aqueous-solutions-of-cane-sugar-and-methyl-glucoside-by-randal-thomas-mowbray-rawdon-berkeley-8th-earl-berkeley-e-g-j-hartley-and-c-v-burton, accessed on 13 September 2024

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