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Reference numberRR/15/247
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Herbert McLeod, on a paper 'A new manometer, and on the law of pressure of gases between 1.5 and 0.01 millimetres of mercury' by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
DateFebruary 1901
DescriptionSectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full with no modifications. All the illustrations are necessary. The paper exhibits the author's characteristic ingenuity and extreme care in all the minutest details. The results of the delicate measurements are extremely concordant and fully prove the truth of Boyle's law at low temperatures.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1901].

Endorsed on verso as received 21 February 1901.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type A)
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rsta.1901.0004
Related records in the catalogueRR/15/248
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CodeNameDates
NA6637McLeod; Herbert (1841 - 1923)1841 - 1923
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist1842 - 1919
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