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Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'The equilibrium of rotating liquid cylinders' by James Hopwood Jeans

Reference number: RR/15/353

Date: April 1902

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. Has no modifications to suggest and thinks all the illustrations necessary. His recommendations are based on a general view of the paper, which seems very able. He has not verified the calculations in detail.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1903].

Endorsed on verso as received 15 April 1902.

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Horace Lamb, Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'The equilibrium of rotating liquid cylinders' by James Hopwood Jeans, April 1902, RR/15/353, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_353/referees-report-by-horace-lamb-on-a-paper-the-equilibrium-of-rotating-liquid-cylinders-by-james-hopwood-jeans, accessed on 14 January 2025

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