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RefNoRR/9/306
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On underground temperature; with observations on the conductivity of rocks; on the thermal effects of saturation and imbibition; and on a special source of heat in mountain ranges' by Joseph Prestwich
Date1885
DescriptionNot recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, but it should be published in Proceedings. Despite the fact that the paper 'does not contain results derived from new observations', it contains 'so large an amount of information sure to be of great value to future enquiries'.

Subject: Geology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1886].
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionReport on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1886.0082
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6347Foster; George Carey (1835 - 1919); physicist1835 - 1919
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