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Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake Utah' by Thomas Edward Thorpe

Reference number: RR/8/209

Date: 11 June 1879

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Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The paper does not contain matter original enough for the Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1880]

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RR/8/209
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11 June 1879
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Walker

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Edward Walker, Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake Utah' by Thomas Edward Thorpe, 11 June 1879, RR/8/209, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_209/referees-report-by-edward-walker-on-a-paper-a-magnetic-survey-of-the-fortieth-parallel-in-north-america-between-the-atlantic-ocean-and-the-great-salt-lake-utah-by-thomas-edward-thorpe, accessed on 03 December 2024

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