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Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'Theorems on the attraction of ellipsoids for certain laws of force other than the inverse square' by Edward John Routh

Reference number: RR/12/385

Date: 24 August 1895

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is long, but the mathematics is 'elegant and terse'. If accepted for the Proceedings, it should be accompanied by a fuller abstract, but the paper would suffer if condensed.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1895]

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RR/12/385
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24 August 1895
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Mitchinson Hicks

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William Mitchinson Hicks, Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'Theorems on the attraction of ellipsoids for certain laws of force other than the inverse square' by Edward John Routh, 24 August 1895, RR/12/385, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_385/referees-report-by-william-mitchinson-hicks-on-a-paper-theorems-on-the-attraction-of-ellipsoids-for-certain-laws-of-force-other-than-the-inverse-square-by-edward-john-routh, accessed on 16 December 2025

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