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Letter from Edwin Bailey Elliott, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay to George Howard Darwin

Reference number: RR/13/71

Date: 08 March 1896

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He agrees with the previous referees and believe the paper should be published as book, not in the Philosophical Transactions. It would be a 'proper use of funds at the disposal of the Royal Society to assist its separate publication'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1895].

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RR/13/71
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08 March 1896
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Edwin Bailey Elliott

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Edwin Bailey Elliott, Letter from Edwin Bailey Elliott, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay to George Howard Darwin, 08 March 1896, RR/13/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_71/letter-from-edwin-bailey-elliott-on-a-paper-octonions-by-alex-mcaulay-to-george-howard-darwin, accessed on 09 October 2024

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