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Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The photo-electric measurement of the diurnal and seasonal variations in daylight and a globe intergrating photometer' by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins and H H Poole

Reference number: RR/55/16

Date: July 1935

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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in its present form. It is not concise or consistent enough. The observations are of importance but their presentation is misleading in some places. The text does not 'read happily'. Modifications are required.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1936].

Endorsed on verso as received 5 July 1935.

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RR/55/16
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July 1935
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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7 pages
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Thomas Smith, Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The photo-electric measurement of the diurnal and seasonal variations in daylight and a globe intergrating photometer' by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins and H H Poole, July 1935, RR/55/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_55_16/referees-report-by-thomas-smith-on-a-paper-the-photo-electric-measurement-of-the-diurnal-and-seasonal-variations-in-daylight-and-a-globe-intergrating-photometer-by-william-ringrose-gelston-atkins-and-h-h-poole, accessed on 05 December 2024

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