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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The thermal decomposition of gaseous benzaldehyde' by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and R E Smith to Eric Keightley Rideal

Reference number: RR/67/236

Date: 12 February 1940

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Egerton has read the paper and is satisfied that it is suitable for Proceedings. Asks Rideal if the the paper should be passed or if it should be sent to another referee, wuch as Norrish or Garner.

Rideal replies 'yes'.

Encloses note from Egerton, agreeing that the paper is suitable for publication.

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

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RR/67/236
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12 February 1940
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Memorandum on paper and note on paper
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2 pages
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Eric Keightley Rideal

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Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton

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Eric Keightley Rideal, Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The thermal decomposition of gaseous benzaldehyde' by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and R E Smith to Eric Keightley Rideal, 12 February 1940, RR/67/236, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_236/memorandum-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-the-thermal-decomposition-of-gaseous-benzaldehyde-by-cyril-norman-hinshelwood-and-r-e-smith-to-eric-keightley-rideal, accessed on 16 March 2025

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