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
Reference number: RR/8/89
Date: 1878
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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]
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- RR/8/89
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- 1878
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- Letter on paper
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- 8 pages
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- Manuscript
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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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Date: 31st December 1879
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1879.0065
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