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Referee's report by Cecil Edgar Tilley, on a paper 'The stone-iron meteorites called pallasites: a synthetic study of their structure and probable mode of formation' by Robert John Strutt

Reference number: RR/68/204

Date: 08 July 1941

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' if revised. Finds the conclusions rather sweeping. Refers to work of George Perkins Merrill, Henry Clifton Sorby and Victor Moritz Goldschmidt. Suggests the work of other researcheers be more fully referenced, differenced betwen meteorites more fully described.

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 the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

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RR/68/204
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08 July 1941
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Cecil Edgar Tilley, Referee's report by Cecil Edgar Tilley, on a paper 'The stone-iron meteorites called pallasites: a synthetic study of their structure and probable mode of formation' by Robert John Strutt, 08 July 1941, RR/68/204, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_204/referees-report-by-cecil-edgar-tilley-on-a-paper-the-stone-iron-meteorites-called-pallasites-a-synthetic-study-of-their-structure-and-probable-mode-of-formation-by-robert-john-strutt, accessed on 11 December 2024

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