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Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'A photoelectric method of measuring the light of the night sky with studies of the course of variation through the night' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh

Reference number: RR/40/63

Date: April 1929

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It could be shortened.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1929].

Endorsed on verso as received 27 April 1929.

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RR/40/63
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April 1929
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Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'A photoelectric method of measuring the light of the night sky with studies of the course of variation through the night' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, April 1929, RR/40/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_40_63/referees-report-by-gordon-miller-bourne-dobson-on-a-paper-a-photoelectric-method-of-measuring-the-light-of-the-night-sky-with-studies-of-the-course-of-variation-through-the-night-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh, accessed on 18 August 2026

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