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Sectional Committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. 'Much too long for Proceedings...Too unimportant for Transactions'. Suggests further tables of observations should be given, and the paper much compressed. Provides criticism of the method.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 5 August 1926.

Reference number
RR/34/110
Earliest possible date
August 1926
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Typescript
Manuscript

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Hugh Longbourne Callendar

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Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The temperature coefficient of the molecular heats of steam' by W G Shilling, August 1926, RR/34/110, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_34_110/referees-report-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-on-a-paper-the-temperature-coefficient-of-the-molecular-heats-of-steam-by-w-g-shilling, accessed on 10 July 2026

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