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Referee's report by Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, on a paper 'On the quantitative analysis of certain alloys by means of the spectroscope' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and William Chandler Roberts-Austen

Reference number: RR/7/317

Date: 12 July 1874

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The results obtained are 'suffciently remarkable not only as evidence of the accuracy the method admits of but also as being the first quantitative results obtained by by the spectroscope'.

Subject: Chemistry

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1874].

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RR/7/317
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12 July 1874
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4 pages
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Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne

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Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, Referee's report by Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, on a paper 'On the quantitative analysis of certain alloys by means of the spectroscope' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and William Chandler Roberts-Austen, 12 July 1874, RR/7/317, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_317/referees-report-by-mervyn-herbert-nevil-story-maskelyne-on-a-paper-on-the-quantitative-analysis-of-certain-alloys-by-means-of-the-spectroscope-by-joseph-norman-lockyer-and-william-chandler-roberts-austen, accessed on 13 January 2025

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