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Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'Gravitational instability and the nebular hypothesis' by James Hopwood Jeans

Reference number: RR/20/75

Date: 17 November 1913

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, although the argument in one part of the paper is 'obscure' and had prompted the referee to write to the author.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1914].

Endorsed on verso as received 18 November 1914.

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RR/20/75
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17 November 1913
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2 pages
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James Hopwood Jeans, Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'Gravitational instability and the nebular hypothesis' by James Hopwood Jeans, 17 November 1913, RR/20/75, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_20_75/referees-report-by-augustus-edward-hough-love-on-a-paper-gravitational-instability-and-the-nebular-hypothesis-by-james-hopwood-jeans, accessed on 09 October 2024

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