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Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on the viscosity of air' by Alexander Oliver Rankine

Reference number: RR/34/85

Date: February 1926

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests changing the title to remove the reference to criticism. Refers to work of Frank Archer Williams.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1926]

Endorsed on verso as received 15 February 1926.

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RR/34/85
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February 1926
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Charles Herbert Lees, Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on the viscosity of air' by Alexander Oliver Rankine, February 1926, RR/34/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_34_85/referees-report-by-charles-herbert-lees-on-a-paper-the-effect-of-temperature-on-the-viscosity-of-air-by-alexander-oliver-rankine, accessed on 18 May 2025

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