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Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The spectral variation of the photosensitivity of visual purple' by Charles Frederick Goodeve, E E Schneider and Richard James Lythgoe

Reference number: RR/65/104

Date: November 1938

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The detailed illustration could be replaced with a few descriptive sentences.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1939].

Endorsed on verso as received 22 November 1938.

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RR/65/104
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November 1938
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Thomas Smith, Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The spectral variation of the photosensitivity of visual purple' by Charles Frederick Goodeve, E E Schneider and Richard James Lythgoe, November 1938, RR/65/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_104/referees-report-by-thomas-smith-on-a-paper-the-spectral-variation-of-the-photosensitivity-of-visual-purple-by-charles-frederick-goodeve-e-e-schneider-and-richard-james-lythgoe, accessed on 16 January 2025

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