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Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'On the potential of ellipsoidal bodies, and figures of equilibrium of rotating liquid masses' by James Hopwood Jeans

Reference number: RR/21/93

Date: June 1914

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is of 'considerable importance'.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 17 June 1914.

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RR/21/93
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June 1914
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Frank Watson Dyson, Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'On the potential of ellipsoidal bodies, and figures of equilibrium of rotating liquid masses' by James Hopwood Jeans, June 1914, RR/21/93, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_93/referees-report-by-frank-watson-dyson-on-a-paper-on-the-potential-of-ellipsoidal-bodies-and-figures-of-equilibrium-of-rotating-liquid-masses-by-james-hopwood-jeans, accessed on 18 April 2026

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