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Second referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth

Reference number: RR/10/166

Date: 31 October 1888

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Has compared the current paper with papers by Georges Henri Halphen and Edwin Bailey Elliott, and finds the current author's theory distinct from the others.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1889]

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RR/10/166
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31 October 1888
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Second referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth, 31 October 1888, RR/10/166, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_166/second-referees-report-by-arthur-cayley-on-a-paper-a-class-of-functional-invariants-by-andrew-russell-forsyth, accessed on 21 April 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

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