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Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'On the critical speeds of a rotating shaft' by Richard Vynne Southwell

Reference number: RR/20/133

Date: April 1913

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in Proceedings, offers modifications and states that 'the paper is either very good or totally wrong - I feel it is the latter'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 26 April 1913.

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RR/20/133
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April 1913
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4 pages
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James Hopwood Jeans, Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'On the critical speeds of a rotating shaft' by Richard Vynne Southwell, April 1913, RR/20/133, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_20_133/referees-report-by-james-hopwood-jeans-on-a-paper-on-the-critical-speeds-of-a-rotating-shaft-by-richard-vynne-southwell, accessed on 16 January 2026

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