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Referee's report by Robert Robertson, on a paper 'Optical rotatory power of vapours. part I.— Rotatory dispersion of camphor and of camphorquinone, especially in the region of absorption' by Thomas Martin Lowry and H K Gore

Reference number: RR/43/96

Date: November 1931

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The authors should be asked if the tables are necessary, since the curves are already being reproduced. The enclosed graphs are 'too rough'' and the authors should be asked if they were inserted from a laboratory notebook in error.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 13 November 1931.

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Robert Robertson, Referee's report by Robert Robertson, on a paper 'Optical rotatory power of vapours. part I.— Rotatory dispersion of camphor and of camphorquinone, especially in the region of absorption' by Thomas Martin Lowry and H K Gore, November 1931, RR/43/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_43_96/referees-report-by-robert-robertson-on-a-paper-optical-rotatory-power-of-vapours-part-i-rotatory-dispersion-of-camphor-and-of-camphorquinone-especially-in-the-region-of-absorption-by-thomas-martin-lowry-and-h-k-gore, accessed on 19 April 2026

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