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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is 'the development of a very neat discovery made by the author and described in a paper previously communicated to the Royal Society'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1874].

Reference number
RR/7/369
Earliest possible date
16 June 1875
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Thomson

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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On attraction and repulsion resulting from radiation - Part II' by William Crookes, 16 June 1875, RR/7/369, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_369/referees-report-by-william-thomson-lord-kelvin-on-a-paper-on-attraction-and-repulsion-resulting-from-radiation-part-ii-by-william-crookes, accessed on 10 February 2025

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