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Referee feels they cannot provide a definitive answer regarding publication of the paper. The paper should be referred to 'a professed physicist', rather than an 'ordinary geologist' like himself.

Subject: Geology'Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1875].

Reference number
RR/7/325
Earliest possible date
16 June 1874
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Andrew Crombie Ramsay

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Andrew Crombie Ramsay, Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on a paper 'Addition to the paper on 'Volcanic energy: an attempt to develop its true origin and cosmical relations' by Robert Mallet, 16 June 1874, RR/7/325, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_325/referees-report-by-andrew-crombie-ramsay-on-a-paper-addition-to-the-paper-on-volcanic-energy-an-attempt-to-develop-its-true-origin-and-cosmical-relations-by-robert-mallet, accessed on 08 May 2026

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