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Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the absorption of wavelength = 5460.97 A. by luminous mercury vapour' by John Cunningham McLennan, D S Ainslie and F M Cale

Reference number: RR/27/111

Date: July 1922

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1922].

Endorsed on verso as received 4 July 1922.

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RR/27/111
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July 1922
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4 pages
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Robert John Strutt, Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the absorption of wavelength = 5460.97 A. by luminous mercury vapour' by John Cunningham McLennan, D S Ainslie and F M Cale, July 1922, RR/27/111, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_27_111/referees-report-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-on-the-absorption-of-wavelength-546097-a-by-luminous-mercury-vapour-by-john-cunningham-mclennan-d-s-ainslie-and-f-m-cale, accessed on 08 November 2025

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