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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A63

Darwin remarks the paper is 'first rate', and suggests the terms should be printed in italics as to catch the eye of the reader.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1952].

Date received not given.

Reference number
RR/77/80
Earliest possible date
19 May 1952
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Charles Galton Darwin

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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'A negative experiment relating to magnetism and the earth's rotation' by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 19 May 1952, RR/77/80, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_80/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-a-negative-experiment-relating-to-magnetism-and-the-earths-rotation-by-patrick-maynard-stuart-blackett, accessed on 22 January 2026

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