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Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on gravitative attraction' by P E Shaw and N Davy

Reference number: RR/28/10

Date: March 1922

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests reducing the length of the paper. Agrees with Charles Vernon Boys [RR/28/11].

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

Endorsed on verso as received 14 June 1922.

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RR/28/10
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March 1922
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Standardised form (type D)
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert John Strutt

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Robert John Strutt, Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on gravitative attraction' by P E Shaw and N Davy, March 1922, RR/28/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_10/referees-report-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-the-effect-of-temperature-on-gravitative-attraction-by-p-e-shaw-and-n-davy, accessed on 12 November 2025

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