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Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'Optical rotatory dispersion. Part III.—The rotatory dispersion of quartz in the infra-red, visible and ultra-violet regions of the spectrum' by Thomas Martin Lowry and W R C Coode-Adams

Reference number: RR/34/46

Date: September 1926

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is long but should be published in full.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1927]

Endorsed on verso as received 16 September 1926.

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RR/34/46
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September 1926
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4 pages
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Thomas Ralph Merton, Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'Optical rotatory dispersion. Part III.—The rotatory dispersion of quartz in the infra-red, visible and ultra-violet regions of the spectrum' by Thomas Martin Lowry and W R C Coode-Adams, September 1926, RR/34/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_34_46/referees-report-by-thomas-ralph-merton-on-a-paper-optical-rotatory-dispersion-part-iiithe-rotatory-dispersion-of-quartz-in-the-infra-red-visible-and-ultra-violet-regions-of-the-spectrum-by-thomas-martin-lowry-and-w-r-c-coode-adams, accessed on 19 January 2026

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