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Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on the viscosity of air' by W G Shilling and A E Laxton

Reference number: RR/37/157

Date: September 1928

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper shows that the results and conclusions of Williams [?] are inaccurate and erroneous. Refers to work of Edwards [?] and Sutherland [?]. Suggests giving comparisons between the work of all the authors.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 26 September 1928.

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RR/37/157
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September 1928
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Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on the viscosity of air' by W G Shilling and A E Laxton, September 1928, RR/37/157, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_37_157/referees-report-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-on-a-paper-the-effect-of-temperature-on-the-viscosity-of-air-by-w-g-shilling-and-a-e-laxton, accessed on 16 May 2025

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