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Letter from James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The asymmetrical probability curve' by F Y Edgeworth

Reference number: RR/12/96

Date: 15 May 1895

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Has found the paper difficult to referee. Returns the paper to Herbert Rix. 'I think it a pity he ever thought of it for the [Philosophical Transactions]'.

Subject: Mathematics

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

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RR/12/96
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15 May 1895
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1 page
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Manuscript

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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Letter from James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The asymmetrical probability curve' by F Y Edgeworth, 15 May 1895, RR/12/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_96/letter-from-james-whitbread-lee-glaisher-to-john-william-strutt-lord-rayleigh-regarding-a-paper-the-asymmetrical-probability-curve-by-f-y-edgeworth, accessed on 09 July 2025

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