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Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The configurations of rotating compressible masses' by James Hopwood Jeans

Reference number: RR/24/52

Date: 1917

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1919]

Endorsed on verso as received 31 May 1917.

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RR/24/52
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1917
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2 pages
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Arthur Schuster, Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The configurations of rotating compressible masses' by James Hopwood Jeans, 1917, RR/24/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_52/referees-report-by-arthur-schuster-on-the-bakerian-lecture-the-configurations-of-rotating-compressible-masses-by-james-hopwood-jeans, accessed on 13 July 2025

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