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Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'Contribution to the theory of attraction when the force varies as any power of the distance' by Percy Alexander MacMahon and H B C Darling

Reference number: RR/25/27

Date: August 1918

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Recommended for publication in Proceedings.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1919].

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RR/25/27
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August 1918
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Ernest William Hobson, Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'Contribution to the theory of attraction when the force varies as any power of the distance' by Percy Alexander MacMahon and H B C Darling, August 1918, RR/25/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_25_27/referees-report-by-ernest-william-hobson-on-a-paper-contribution-to-the-theory-of-attraction-when-the-force-varies-as-any-power-of-the-distance-by-percy-alexander-macmahon-and-h-b-c-darling, accessed on 12 April 2026

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