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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'An investigation into the periodicity of measles epidemics in London from 1703 to the present day by the method of the periodogram' by John Brownlee

Reference number: RR/24/26

Date: December 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper adds value to the author's previous papers.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1918]

Endorsed on verso as received 22 December 1917.

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RR/24/26
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December 1917
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Arthur Stanley Eddington, Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'An investigation into the periodicity of measles epidemics in London from 1703 to the present day by the method of the periodogram' by John Brownlee, December 1917, RR/24/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_26/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-an-investigation-into-the-periodicity-of-measles-epidemics-in-london-from-1703-to-the-present-day-by-the-method-of-the-periodogram-by-john-brownlee, accessed on 14 December 2024

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