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Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The photo-electric measurement of the penetration of light of various wave-lengths into the sea and the physiological bearing of the results' by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins and H H Poole

Reference number: RR/44/23

Date: August 1932

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, after revision. The discussion of observations should be re-written 'in light od an adequate theory'.Table three could be replaced with a diagram.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 5 August 1932.

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RR/44/23
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August 1932
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Thomas Smith, Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The photo-electric measurement of the penetration of light of various wave-lengths into the sea and the physiological bearing of the results' by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins and H H Poole, August 1932, RR/44/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_23/referees-report-by-thomas-smith-on-a-paper-the-photo-electric-measurement-of-the-penetration-of-light-of-various-wave-lengths-into-the-sea-and-the-physiological-bearing-of-the-results-by-william-ringrose-gelston-atkins-and-h-h-poole, accessed on 05 December 2024

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