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Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'Notes upon evaporation and the discharge of steam from orifices' by W Geoffrey Duffield

Reference number: RR/26/34

Date: July 1921

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The experiments are poorly designed and the meaning of the paper unclear. Refers to work of Martin Knudsen.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 2 July 1921.

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RR/26/34
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July 1921
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Typescript
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Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'Notes upon evaporation and the discharge of steam from orifices' by W Geoffrey Duffield, July 1921, RR/26/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_34/referees-report-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-on-a-paper-notes-upon-evaporation-and-the-discharge-of-steam-from-orifices-by-w-geoffrey-duffield, accessed on 25 May 2025

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