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Referee's report by Thomas Romney Robinson on a paper 'Account of experiments made at Holyhead (North Wales) to ascertain the transit-velocity of waves, analogous to earthquake waves, through the local rock formations' by Robert Mallet

Reference number: RR/4/167

Date: 26 October 1861

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The instruments used in the experiment are 'well adapted' to this kind of observation and the corrections are 'well worked', with the exception of one.

Subject: Geology

[Publihsed in Philosophical Transactions, 1861].

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RR/4/167
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26 October 1861
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Romney Robinson

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Thomas Romney Robinson, Referee's report by Thomas Romney Robinson on a paper 'Account of experiments made at Holyhead (North Wales) to ascertain the transit-velocity of waves, analogous to earthquake waves, through the local rock formations' by Robert Mallet, 26 October 1861, RR/4/167, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_4_167/referees-report-by-thomas-romney-robinson-on-a-paper-account-of-experiments-made-at-holyhead-north-wales-to-ascertain-the-transit-velocity-of-waves-analogous-to-earthquake-waves-through-the-local-rock-formations-by-robert-mallet, accessed on 14 December 2024

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