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Second referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Electronic spectra of polyatomic molecules II–Acrolein' by Eric Eastwood and C P Snow

Reference number: RR/53/49

Date: December 1934

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds the authors have misunderstood his previous recommendation of adding O-C values to the table. Finds no advantage to their current method. Considers it better to incorporate the new matter into the present paper.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 28 December 1934.

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RR/53/49
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December 1934
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William Edward Curtis, Second referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Electronic spectra of polyatomic molecules II–Acrolein' by Eric Eastwood and C P Snow, December 1934, RR/53/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_53_49/second-referees-report-by-william-edward-curtis-on-a-paper-electronic-spectra-of-polyatomic-molecules-iiacrolein-by-eric-eastwood-and-c-p-snow, accessed on 07 October 2026

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