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Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Capillary action' by W Galloway

Reference number: RR/28/119

Date: 28 September 1923

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Suggests adding reference to previous inconsistent measurements. The data may be valuable, the paper itself in inconclusive and unclear.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 29 September 1923.

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RR/28/119
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28 September 1923
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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9 pages
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Typescript
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Charles Vernon Boys

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Charles Vernon Boys, Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Capillary action' by W Galloway, 28 September 1923, RR/28/119, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_119/referees-report-by-charles-vernon-boys-on-a-paper-capillary-action-by-w-galloway, accessed on 18 July 2025

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