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Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'The coincidence method for the wave-length measurement of absorption bands' by Hamilton Hartridge

Reference number: RR/27/65

Date: July 1922

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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The author's method of determining wave lengths of the maximum of an absorption band seems 'fallacious'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1923].

Endorsed on verso as received 13 July 1922.

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RR/27/65
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July 1922
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Standardised form (type D) and typed note on paper
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6 pages
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Thomas Ralph Merton

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Thomas Ralph Merton, Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'The coincidence method for the wave-length measurement of absorption bands' by Hamilton Hartridge, July 1922, RR/27/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_27_65/referees-report-by-thomas-ralph-merton-on-a-paper-the-coincidence-method-for-the-wave-length-measurement-of-absorption-bands-by-hamilton-hartridge, accessed on 24 June 2025

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