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RefNoRR/17/6
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'The distribution of blue and violet light in the corona on August 30, 1905, as derived from photographs taken at Kalaa-es-Senam, Tunisia' by L Becker
Datend [1907]
DescriptionSectional Committee: Not stated [Astronomy]

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Despite reading the paper in haste, he finds an important point of the equipment and method is not considered in the paper, which could seriously affect the result. Admits he may have missed this point, and would ask for clarification from the author.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1907.0049 Vol.79 1907
RelatedRecordRR/17/5
RR/17/7
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1105Turner; Herbert Hall (1861 - 1930); astronomer and seismologist1861 - 1930
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