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Referee's report by George Frederick Charles Searle, on a paper 'Further investigation of the velocity of propagation of light in vacuo in a transverse magnetic field' by C J Banwell and Clinton Coleridge Farr

Reference number: RR/65/21

Date: 22 February 1938

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper could not be shortened without detriment. The experiment seems carefully planned. Some modifications are required before publication.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].

Endorsed on verso as received 24 February 1938.

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RR/65/21
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22 February 1938
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Standardised form (type E) and note on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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George Frederick Charles Searle

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George Frederick Charles Searle, Referee's report by George Frederick Charles Searle, on a paper 'Further investigation of the velocity of propagation of light in vacuo in a transverse magnetic field' by C J Banwell and Clinton Coleridge Farr, 22 February 1938, RR/65/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_21/referees-report-by-george-frederick-charles-searle-on-a-paper-further-investigation-of-the-velocity-of-propagation-of-light-in-vacuo-in-a-transverse-magnetic-field-by-c-j-banwell-and-clinton-coleridge-farr, accessed on 10 December 2023

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