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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work of Michael Faraday and Alexander Macfarlane.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1879]

Reference number
RR/8/89
Earliest possible date
1878
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

James Clerk Maxwell

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James Clerk Maxwell, Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the illumination of lines of molecular pressure, and the trajectory of molecules' by William Crookes, 1878, RR/8/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_89/referees-report-by-james-clerk-maxwell-on-the-bakerian-lecture-on-the-illumination-of-lines-of-molecular-pressure-and-the-trajectory-of-molecules-by-william-crookes, accessed on 20 May 2026

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