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Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'Determination of the yard in wave-lengths of light' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton

Reference number: RR/44/110

Date: April 1931

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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication. The method doesn't add anything to current knowledge. If published, some parts should be omitted. A Second referee should be consulted.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 21 April 1931.

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RR/44/110
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April 1931
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Frank Twyman, Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'Determination of the yard in wave-lengths of light' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, April 1931, RR/44/110, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_110/referees-report-by-frank-twyman-on-a-paper-determination-of-the-yard-in-wave-lengths-of-light-by-alfred-edwin-howard-tutton, accessed on 16 January 2025

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