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Referee's report by William Edward Curtis on a paper 'Flame spectra in the photographic infra-red' by Alfred Gordon Gaydon

Reference number: RR/67/188

Date: August 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1942].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 August 1940.

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RR/67/188
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August 1940
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2 pages
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William Edward Curtis, Referee's report by William Edward Curtis on a paper 'Flame spectra in the photographic infra-red' by Alfred Gordon Gaydon, August 1940, RR/67/188, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_188/referees-report-by-william-edward-curtis-on-a-paper-flame-spectra-in-the-photographic-infra-red-by-alfred-gordon-gaydon, accessed on 21 January 2025

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