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Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'Researches in spectrum-analysis in connexion with the spectrum of the sun - No. IV' by Joseph Norman Lockyer

Reference number: RR/7/315

Date: 25 May 1874

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper is a 'contribution to a subject of very great importance'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1874].

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RR/7/315
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25 May 1874
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Edward Frankland

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Edward Frankland, Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'Researches in spectrum-analysis in connexion with the spectrum of the sun - No. IV' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 25 May 1874, RR/7/315, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_315/referees-report-by-edward-frankland-on-a-paper-researches-in-spectrum-analysis-in-connexion-with-the-spectrum-of-the-sun-no-iv-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 19 July 2026

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