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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/19/73

Date: 10 May 1912

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the paper be sent back to the author for a few corrections. See detailed report RR/19/72.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 11 May 1912.

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RR/19/73
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10 May 1912
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2 pages
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William McFadden Orr, 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, 10 May 1912, RR/19/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_73/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 13 December 2025

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