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Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It contains a 'description of very valuable and accurate method of determining inductive capacities'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1871].

Reference number
RR/7/94
Earliest possible date
29 June 1871
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin

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Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, Referee's report by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on a paper 'Measurements of specific inductive capacity of dielectrics, in the physical laboratory of the University of Glasgow' by John C Gibson and Thomas Barclay, 29 June 1871, RR/7/94, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_94/referees-report-by-henry-charles-fleeming-jenkin-on-a-paper-measurements-of-specific-inductive-capacity-of-dielectrics-in-the-physical-laboratory-of-the-university-of-glasgow-by-john-c-gibson-and-thomas-barclay, accessed on 23 January 2026

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