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Second referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'Microscopical researches in high power definition' by George West Royston-Pigott

Reference number: RR/8/255

Date: 05 August 1880

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' if the observations are new, or the Proceedings if they are not. Refers to work of Lionel Smith Beale. Does not think the paper meets all the difficulties of the question. Is unable to refer to the author's writings on the microscopic scale.

Subject: Applied Sciences, Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1881]

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RR/8/255
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05 August 1880
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8 pages
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Henry Clifton Sorby

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Henry Clifton Sorby, Second referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'Microscopical researches in high power definition' by George West Royston-Pigott, 05 August 1880, RR/8/255, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_255/second-referees-report-by-henry-clifton-sorby-on-a-paper-microscopical-researches-in-high-power-definition-by-george-west-royston-pigott, accessed on 09 October 2024

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