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Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of the alkaloids' by Walter Noel Hartley

Reference number: RR/9/273

Date: 17 February 1885

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is a 'valuable addition to our knowledge of molecular physics and theoretical chemistry'. The paper is also 'unneccessarily elaborate'.

Subject: Chemistry

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1885].

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RR/9/273
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17 February 1885
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Hall Gladstone

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John Hall Gladstone, Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of the alkaloids' by Walter Noel Hartley, 17 February 1885, RR/9/273, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_273/referees-report-by-john-hall-gladstone-on-a-paper-the-absorption-spectra-of-the-alkaloids-by-walter-noel-hartley, accessed on 05 October 2024

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