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Reference numberNLB/61/501
Alternative reference numberNLB/61 p290
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Frederick Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS
Date13 July 1921
DescriptionInforms Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook that they have received Professor [Alfred] Fowler's reports on the three papers by Professor [John Cunningham] McLennan. Notes that the report on 'The refractive indices of mercuty and thallium vapours' is favourable and asks if it can be passed under Standing Order 43. Encloses his reports on the remaining two papers, 'The spectrum of potassium' and 'The emission and absorption spectra of mercury', and asks whether the enclosed letter might be sent to Professor McLennan on the subject [nothing enclosed].
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