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RefNoRR/7/430
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The action of light on selenium' by William Grylls Adams and R E Day
Date23 October 1876
DescriptionNot recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.They have not succeeded in 'fully clearing up the nature of this action they set themselves to investigate'. The paper 'leaves it doubtful whether the authors have made two or three important discoveries or whether the phenomena they have observed are the results of familiar causes'.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1877].
Extent9p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionReport on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1877.0009
RelatedRecordRR/7/429
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6347Foster; George Carey (1835 - 1919); physicist1835 - 1919
NA8034Adams; William Grylls (1836 - 1915)1836 - 1915
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