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Referee's report by Alfred Barnard Basset, on a paper 'On Stokes’s current function' by Ralph Allen Sampson

Reference number: RR/10/375

Date: 19 December 1890

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Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, if revised and abridged. Refers to work of George Gabriel Stokes. Provides criticism of the mathematics.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1891]

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RR/10/375
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19 December 1890
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Letter on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Alfred Barnard Basset

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Alfred Barnard Basset, Referee's report by Alfred Barnard Basset, on a paper 'On Stokes’s current function' by Ralph Allen Sampson, 19 December 1890, RR/10/375, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_375/referees-report-by-alfred-barnard-basset-on-a-paper-on-stokess-current-function-by-ralph-allen-sampson, accessed on 23 March 2025

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