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Reference numberRR/68/204
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Cecil Edgar Tilley, on a paper 'The stone-iron meteorites called pallasites: a synthetic study of their structure and probable mode of formation' by Robert John Strutt
Date8 July 1941
DescriptionSectional Committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' if revised. Finds the conclusions rather sweeping. Refers to work of George Perkins Merrill, Henry Clifton Sorby and Victor Moritz Goldschmidt. Suggests the work of other researcheers be more fully referenced, differenced betwen meteorites more fully described.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

No received date.
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type E)
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1942.0012 Vol.179 1942
Related records in the catalogueRR/68/205
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA2210Tilley; Cecil Edgar (1894 - 1973)1894 - 1973
NA7877Strutt; Robert John (1875 - 1947); 4th Baron Rayleigh; experimental physicist1875 - 1947
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