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Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the application of harmonic analysis to the dynamical theory of the tides. — Part I. On laplace’s "oscillations of the first species” and the dynamics of ocean currents' by Sydney Samuel Hough

Reference number: RR/13/193

Date: 03 April 1897

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. It is a great advance in the subject. Some of the earlier points could be condensed.

Subject: Astronomy/Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1897].

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RR/13/193
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03 April 1897
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Horace Lamb, Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the application of harmonic analysis to the dynamical theory of the tides. — Part I. On laplace’s "oscillations of the first species” and the dynamics of ocean currents' by Sydney Samuel Hough, 03 April 1897, RR/13/193, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_193/referees-report-by-horace-lamb-on-a-paper-on-the-application-of-harmonic-analysis-to-the-dynamical-theory-of-the-tides-part-i-on-laplaces-oscillations-of-the-first-species-and-the-dynamics-of-ocean-currents-by-sydney-samuel-hough, accessed on 08 December 2024

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