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Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Eddy motion in the atmosphere' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Reference number: RR/21/145

Date: April 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The 'tentative' nature of the mathematics should be stated more clearly. The figures for comparative statements should be given.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1915]

Endorsed on verso as received 28 April 1914.

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RR/21/145
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April 1914
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4 pages
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Horace Lamb, Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Eddy motion in the atmosphere' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, April 1914, RR/21/145, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_145/referees-report-by-horace-lamb-on-a-paper-eddy-motion-in-the-atmosphere-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor, accessed on 12 February 2026

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