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Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Colour photometry' by William de Wivelesile Abney and Edward Robert Festing

Reference number: RR/9/322

Date: 12 April 1886

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is 'of great interest and scientific importance'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1886].

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RR/9/322
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12 April 1886
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Augustus George Vernon Harcourt

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Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Colour photometry' by William de Wivelesile Abney and Edward Robert Festing, 12 April 1886, RR/9/322, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_322/referees-report-by-augustus-george-vernon-harcourt-on-the-bakerian-lecture-colour-photometry-by-william-de-wivelesile-abney-and-edward-robert-festing, accessed on 09 September 2026

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