Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the potential of ellipsoidal bodies, and figures of equilibrium of rotating liquid masses' by James Hopwood Jeans
Reference number: RR/21/94
Date: July 1914

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics
Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests reducing or re-writing the paper in places. Refers to work by George Howard Darwin and Henri Poincaré.
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1915]
Endorsed on verso as received 21 July 1914.
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Horace Lamb, Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the potential of ellipsoidal bodies, and figures of equilibrium of rotating liquid masses' by James Hopwood Jeans, July 1914, RR/21/94, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_94/referees-report-by-horace-lamb-on-a-paper-on-the-potential-of-ellipsoidal-bodies-and-figures-of-equilibrium-of-rotating-liquid-masses-by-james-hopwood-jeans, accessed on 11 February 2025
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II. On the potential of ellipsoidal bodies, and figures of equilibrium of rotating liquid masses External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 1st January 1915
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1915.0002
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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
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Referees' reports: volume 21, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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