Second referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'The pear shaped and other figures of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard Darwin
Reference number: RR/15/176
Date: October 1901
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Sectional committee: Mathematics
Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions in full, without modification and that all the illustrations should be reproduced. He presumes the former paper on 'Ellipsoidal Harmonies' is to be printed. Has nothing further to add to his first report. The author has excluded certain parts which he has since found to be erroneous regarding the possibility of skew deformations.
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1902].
Endorsed on verso as received 28 October 1901.
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William Mitchinson Hicks, Second referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'The pear shaped and other figures of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard Darwin, October 1901, RR/15/176, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_176/second-referees-report-by-william-mitchinson-hicks-on-a-paper-the-pear-shaped-and-other-figures-of-equilibrium-of-a-rotating-mass-of-liquid-by-george-howard-darwin, accessed on 18 April 2026
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Referees' reports: volume 15, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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