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Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The acoustic shadow of the sphere, with an appendix by Professor A Lodge giving the values of Legendre's Functions from P0 to P20 at intervals of 5 degrees' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

Reference number: RR/16/95

Date: 30 January 1904

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Illustrations are not mentioned. In general the paper deals with a question of great interest and the results obtained are valuable. Explains why the compiler of the tables might add a word of caution as to the use of the values when the order of the harmonies is high.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1904].

Endorsed on verso as received 1 February 1904.

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RR/16/95
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Hector Munro Macdonald, Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The acoustic shadow of the sphere, with an appendix by Professor A Lodge giving the values of Legendre's Functions from P0 to P20 at intervals of 5 degrees' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 30 January 1904, RR/16/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_95/referees-report-by-hector-munro-macdonald-on-a-paper-the-acoustic-shadow-of-the-sphere-with-an-appendix-by-professor-a-lodge-giving-the-values-of-legendres-functions-from-p0-to-p20-at-intervals-of-5-degrees-by-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh, accessed on 14 January 2026

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