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Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On boomerangs' by Gilbert Thomas Walker

Reference number: RR/13/302

Date: 03 July 1897

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It contains an 'able and original attack on a very difficult problem'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1897].

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RR/13/302
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03 July 1897
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Report on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Horace Lamb

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Horace Lamb, Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On boomerangs' by Gilbert Thomas Walker, 03 July 1897, RR/13/302, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_302/referees-report-by-horace-lamb-on-a-paper-on-boomerangs-by-gilbert-thomas-walker, accessed on 03 December 2024

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