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Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'Spectroscopic observations of the sun' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and G M Seabroke

Reference number: RR/7/319

Date: 27 April 1874

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is a 'very important contribution to the foundation upon which eventually solar physics and chemistry must be constructed'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1875].

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RR/7/319
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27 April 1874
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Frankland

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Edward Frankland, Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'Spectroscopic observations of the sun' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and G M Seabroke, 27 April 1874, RR/7/319, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_319/referees-report-by-edward-frankland-on-a-paper-spectroscopic-observations-of-the-sun-by-joseph-norman-lockyer-and-g-m-seabroke, accessed on 23 January 2025

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