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Referee's report by Samuel Hunter Christie, on a paper 'A method of proving the three leading properties of the ellipse and the hyperbola from a well-known property of the circle' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock

Reference number: RR/1bis/34

Date: 1843

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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The items investigated are not adequately explained or defined.

Subject: Mathematics

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

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RR/1bis/34
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1843
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Hunter Christie

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Samuel Hunter Christie, Referee's report by Samuel Hunter Christie, on a paper 'A method of proving the three leading properties of the ellipse and the hyperbola from a well-known property of the circle' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1843, RR/1bis/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1bis_34/referees-report-by-samuel-hunter-christie-on-a-paper-a-method-of-proving-the-three-leading-properties-of-the-ellipse-and-the-hyperbola-from-a-well-known-property-of-the-circle-by-jonathan-frederick-pollock, accessed on 23 January 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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