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Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset

Reference number: RR/10/318

Date: 23 December 1889

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' based on the abstract. Does not wish to give a full report at the present time, as he is working on a paper on the same subject. Judging from the abstract, the 'methods are distinct and conclusions concordant'.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1890]

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RR/10/318
Earliest possible date
23 December 1889
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Horace Lamb

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Horace Lamb, Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset, 23 December 1889, RR/10/318, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_318/referees-report-by-horace-lamb-on-a-paper-on-the-extension-and-flexure-of-cylindrical-and-spherical-thin-elastic-shells-by-alfred-barnard-basset, accessed on 19 March 2025

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