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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1918].

Endorsed on verso as received [April 1916].

Reference number
RR/23/46
Earliest possible date
April 1916
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Frank Watson Dyson

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Frank Watson Dyson, Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'On the instability of the pear-shaped figure of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by James Hopwood Jeans, April 1916, RR/23/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23_46/referees-report-by-frank-watson-dyson-on-a-paper-on-the-instability-of-the-pear-shaped-figure-of-equilibrium-of-a-rotating-mass-of-liquid-by-james-hopwood-jeans, accessed on 16 March 2026

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