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Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'Drawings of the corona from photographs at total eclipses from 1896 to 1922' by Frank Watson Dyson, Astronomer Royal

Reference number: RR/33/9

Date: 16 November 1926

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, although it may be better placed in Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, 'for the sake of wider accessibility among astronomers'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1927].

Endorsed on verso as received 17 November 1926.

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RR/33/9
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16 November 1926
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4 pages
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Hugh Frank Newall

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Hugh Frank Newall, Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'Drawings of the corona from photographs at total eclipses from 1896 to 1922' by Frank Watson Dyson, Astronomer Royal, 16 November 1926, RR/33/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_33_9/referees-report-by-hugh-frank-newall-on-a-paper-drawings-of-the-corona-from-photographs-at-total-eclipses-from-1896-to-1922-by-frank-watson-dyson-astronomer-royal, accessed on 12 December 2024

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