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Has read Andrew Russell Forsyth's report [RR/12/129]. Agrees that an abbreviation of the paper would increase its value for the Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1894]

Reference number
RR/12/132
Earliest possible date
17 November 1894
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Percy Alexander MacMahon

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Percy Alexander MacMahon, Letter from Percy Alexander MacMahon, regarding a paper 'The differential covariants of twisted curves, with some illustrations of the application to quartic curves' by R F Gwyther, 17 November 1894, RR/12/132, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_132/letter-from-percy-alexander-macmahon-regarding-a-paper-the-differential-covariants-of-twisted-curves-with-some-illustrations-of-the-application-to-quartic-curves-by-r-f-gwyther, accessed on 24 June 2025

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