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Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'An investigation of cold-worked polycrystalline alpha-iron' by L Mullins and J W Rodgers

Reference number: RR/66/203

Date: 1939

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Sectional Committee: Engineering

No clear statement regarding publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the paper be submitted to an x-ray expert such as Albert James Bradley or John Desmond Bernal. The paper is too long, and the intoduction contains inaccuracies. Criticises the analyitcal method.

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

No received date.

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RR/66/203
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1939
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Standardised form (type E)
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2 pages
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Cecil Henry Desch

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Cecil Henry Desch, Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'An investigation of cold-worked polycrystalline alpha-iron' by L Mullins and J W Rodgers, 1939, RR/66/203, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_203/referees-report-by-cecil-henry-desch-on-a-paper-an-investigation-of-cold-worked-polycrystalline-alpha-iron-by-l-mullins-and-j-w-rodgers, accessed on 12 December 2025

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