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Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'Exterior ballistics. 'Error of the day' and other corrections to naval range-tables' by George Forbes

Reference number: RR/16/179

Date: 22 December 1904

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. It is useful in showing how much can be done with the principle of mechanical similitude applied to a problem quite intractable by rigorous analysis.

Annotated by Robert William Frederick Harrison that he has marked the paper for Proceedings accordingly.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1904].

Endorsed on verso as received 23 December 1904.

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RR/16/179
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22 December 1904
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Alfred George Greenhill, Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'Exterior ballistics. 'Error of the day' and other corrections to naval range-tables' by George Forbes, 22 December 1904, RR/16/179, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_179/referees-report-by-alfred-george-greenhill-on-a-paper-exterior-ballistics-error-of-the-day-and-other-corrections-to-naval-range-tables-by-george-forbes, accessed on 29 April 2025

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