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Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'Certain supra-annual cycles of temperature in the earth's surface crust' by Charles Piazzi Smyth

Reference number: RR/7/66

Date: 19 May 1870

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Referee does not explicitly state whether the paper should be published or not. Believes that the results of the experiment are not of a 'cosmical nature'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1869].

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RR/7/66
Earliest possible date
19 May 1870
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Balfour Stewart

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Balfour Stewart, Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'Certain supra-annual cycles of temperature in the earth's surface crust' by Charles Piazzi Smyth, 19 May 1870, RR/7/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_66/referees-report-by-balfour-stewart-on-a-paper-certain-supra-annual-cycles-of-temperature-in-the-earths-surface-crust-by-charles-piazzi-smyth, accessed on 16 May 2025

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