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Detailed referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'On a form of the solution of Laplace's equation suitable for problems relating to two spheres' by George Barker Jeffery

Reference number: RR/19/72

Date: 1912

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Sectional Committee: Not stated [Mathematics]

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests some amendments to the equations. Refers to work by Manwell [?]. Suggests that when the author has made the suggested changes that the paper be re-submitted to referees.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1912]

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RR/19/72
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1912
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4 pages
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William McFadden Orr

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William McFadden Orr, Detailed referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'On a form of the solution of Laplace's equation suitable for problems relating to two spheres' by George Barker Jeffery, 1912, RR/19/72, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_72/detailed-referees-report-by-william-mcfadden-orr-on-a-paper-on-a-form-of-the-solution-of-laplaces-equation-suitable-for-problems-relating-to-two-spheres-by-george-barker-jeffery, accessed on 09 July 2025

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