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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Kinetic friction in or near the boundary region - I. Apparatus and experimental methods' by Bruce Chalmers, P G Forrester and E F Phelps

Reference number: RR/69/60

Date: 02 March 1946

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It is a good description of a well-designed apparatus. Assumes that the results have already been found and will be published later.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946].

Date received not given.

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RR/69/60
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02 March 1946
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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Kinetic friction in or near the boundary region - I. Apparatus and experimental methods' by Bruce Chalmers, P G Forrester and E F Phelps, 02 March 1946, RR/69/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_60/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-kinetic-friction-in-or-near-the-boundary-region-i-apparatus-and-experimental-methods-by-bruce-chalmers-p-g-forrester-and-e-f-phelps, accessed on 08 December 2025

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