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Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On boomerangs' by Gilbert Thomas Walker

Reference number: RR/13/304

Date: 17 May 1897

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper is a considerable advance in the subject. The author should add a footnote giving a fuller reference to the experiments that led him to include a couple.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1897].

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RR/13/304
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17 May 1897
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward John Routh

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Edward John Routh, Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On boomerangs' by Gilbert Thomas Walker, 17 May 1897, RR/13/304, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_304/referees-report-by-edward-john-routh-on-a-paper-on-boomerangs-by-gilbert-thomas-walker, accessed on 11 October 2024

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