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Referee's report by George Downing Liveing, on a paper 'Measurements of the wave-lengths of lines of high refrangibility in the spectra of elementary substances' by Walter Noel Hartley and W E Adeney

Reference number: RR/9/146

Date: 18 May 1883

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The results are 'decidedly valuable and worth publishing'.

Subject: Chemistry

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1884].

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RR/9/146
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18 May 1883
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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George Downing Liveing

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George Downing Liveing, Referee's report by George Downing Liveing, on a paper 'Measurements of the wave-lengths of lines of high refrangibility in the spectra of elementary substances' by Walter Noel Hartley and W E Adeney, 18 May 1883, RR/9/146, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_146/referees-report-by-george-downing-liveing-on-a-paper-measurements-of-the-wave-lengths-of-lines-of-high-refrangibility-in-the-spectra-of-elementary-substances-by-walter-noel-hartley-and-w-e-adeney, accessed on 09 December 2024

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