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Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Newtons Rings formed by metallic reflection' by Richard C Maclaurin

Reference number: RR/16/346

Date: October 1905

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Rayleigh thinks the paper should be published in Proceedings without substantial modification but further instructions to the printers seem to be required. All the illustrations should be reproduced. Notes his recommendation is founded upon a cursory examination of the paper only.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1905].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 October 1905.

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RR/16/346
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October 1905
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Robert John Strutt, Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Newtons Rings formed by metallic reflection' by Richard C Maclaurin, October 1905, RR/16/346, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_346/referees-report-by-robert-john-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-newtons-rings-formed-by-metallic-reflection-by-richard-c-maclaurin, accessed on 12 December 2024

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