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Referee's report by Henry Enfield Roscoe, on a paper 'The action of light on selenium' by W G Adams

Reference number: RR/7/358

Date: 17 June 1875

Description

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, although it should be edited before publication. It contains 'valuable and careful observations'. However, it also appears to have been 'hurriedly put together and it is confused in style and very difficult to follow'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1877].

Reference number
RR/7/358
Earliest possible date
17 June 1875
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript
Related authors
Adams; William Grylls (1836-1915); physicist and astronomer

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Henry Enfield Roscoe

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Henry Enfield Roscoe, Referee's report by Henry Enfield Roscoe, on a paper 'The action of light on selenium' by W G Adams, 17 June 1875, RR/7/358, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_358/referees-report-by-henry-enfield-roscoe-on-a-paper-the-action-of-light-on-selenium-by-w-g-adams, accessed on 03 December 2024

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