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Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the application of harmonic analysis to the dynamical theory of the tides.—Part II. On the general integration of Laplace’s dynamical equations' by Sydney Samuel Hough

Reference number: RR/13/196

Date: 24 October 1897

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper is a continuation of a previous one, which forms an important contribution to the subject.

Subject: Astronomy/Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1898].

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RR/13/196
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24 October 1897
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3 pages
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George Howard Darwin, Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the application of harmonic analysis to the dynamical theory of the tides.—Part II. On the general integration of Laplace’s dynamical equations' by Sydney Samuel Hough, 24 October 1897, RR/13/196, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_196/referees-report-by-george-howard-darwin-on-a-paper-on-the-application-of-harmonic-analysis-to-the-dynamical-theory-of-the-tidespart-ii-on-the-general-integration-of-laplaces-dynamical-equations-by-sydney-samuel-hough, accessed on 18 November 2025

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