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

Reference number: RR/7/316

Date: 09 June 1874

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper seems 'more fit for the Proceedings yet it's scientific importance' gives it a claim to be in Philosophical Transactions instead. The paper is 'not by any means perfect from a literary point of view' and it should be edited before publication.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1874].

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RR/7/316
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09 June 1874
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Robert Bellamy Clifton

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Robert Bellamy Clifton, Referee's report by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on a paper 'Researches in spectrum-analysis in connexion with the spectrum of the sun - No. IV' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 09 June 1874, RR/7/316, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_316/referees-report-by-robert-bellamy-clifton-on-a-paper-researches-in-spectrum-analysis-in-connexion-with-the-spectrum-of-the-sun-no-iv-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 10 October 2024

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