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Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, 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/9/148

Date: 1883

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The paper is not 'written out with that care which is desireable in publications of the Royal Society'. They description of the method should be revised prior to publication.

Subject: Chemistry

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1884].

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RR/9/148
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1883
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Report on paper
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2 pages
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Arthur Schuster

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Arthur Schuster, Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, 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, 1883, RR/9/148, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_148/referees-report-by-arthur-schuster-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 21 March 2025

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