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Referee's report by Frank Edward Smith, on a paper 'A new determination of the ratio standard yard to the international prototype metre' by J E Sears, W H Johnson and H L P Jolly

Reference number: RR/36/69

Date: October 1927

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Is in agreement with the first referee [RR/36/68]. Suggests the method should be verified by Mandel.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1928]

Endorsed on verso as received 20 October 1927.

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RR/36/69
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October 1927
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2 pages
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Frank Edward Smith

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Frank Edward Smith, Referee's report by Frank Edward Smith, on a paper 'A new determination of the ratio standard yard to the international prototype metre' by J E Sears, W H Johnson and H L P Jolly, October 1927, RR/36/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_36_69/referees-report-by-frank-edward-smith-on-a-paper-a-new-determination-of-the-ratio-standard-yard-to-the-international-prototype-metre-by-j-e-sears-w-h-johnson-and-h-l-p-jolly, accessed on 14 November 2025

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