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Referee's report by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, on a paper 'Helium-ratios of rocks and minerals from the diamond pipes of South Africa' by Arthur Holmes and Friedrich Adolf Paneth

Reference number: RR/56/22

Date: 30 November 1935

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds the paper very long, especially parts two and three, but as the subject has been one of controversy in the past, it might be best to publish it as it stands.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 2 December 1935.

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RR/56/22
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30 November 1935
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Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, Referee's report by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, on a paper 'Helium-ratios of rocks and minerals from the diamond pipes of South Africa' by Arthur Holmes and Friedrich Adolf Paneth, 30 November 1935, RR/56/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_56_22/referees-report-by-alfred-edwin-howard-tutton-on-a-paper-helium-ratios-of-rocks-and-minerals-from-the-diamond-pipes-of-south-africa-by-arthur-holmes-and-friedrich-adolf-paneth, accessed on 18 February 2026

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