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Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'Density of the vapour in the mercury arc and the relative intensities of the radiated spectral lines, with special reference to the forbidden line 2270' by B Venkatesachar

Reference number: RR/36/88

Date: July 1927

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The Friedrich Paschen notation used is now superseded by the Russell–Saunders system, after Henry Norris Russell and Frederick Saunders. Suggests printing the paper as it stands, with a note regarding the systems; encloses a note giving such an outline.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1927]

Endorsed on verso as received 23 July 1927.

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RR/36/88
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July 1927
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Alfred Fowler, Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'Density of the vapour in the mercury arc and the relative intensities of the radiated spectral lines, with special reference to the forbidden line 2270' by B Venkatesachar, July 1927, RR/36/88, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_36_88/referees-report-by-alfred-fowler-on-a-paper-density-of-the-vapour-in-the-mercury-arc-and-the-relative-intensities-of-the-radiated-spectral-lines-with-special-reference-to-the-forbidden-line-2270-by-b-venkatesachar, accessed on 09 May 2026

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