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Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the origin of the auroral green line 5577 Å, and other spectra associated with aurora borealis' by John Cunningham McLennan and G M Shrum

Reference number: RR/32/96

Date: 1925

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It is a 'most substantial contribution to the solution of a long standing mystery'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1925].

Endorsed on verso as received 1925.

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RR/32/96
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1925
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John Cunningham McLennan, Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the origin of the auroral green line 5577 Å, and other spectra associated with aurora borealis' by John Cunningham McLennan and G M Shrum, 1925, RR/32/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_32_96/referees-report-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-on-the-origin-of-the-auroral-green-line-5577-å-and-other-spectra-associated-with-aurora-borealis-by-john-cunningham-mclennan-and-g-m-shrum, accessed on 20 January 2025

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