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Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'On the value of the secular acceleration of the mean longitude of the moon' by Edmund Neville Nevill

Reference number: RR/25/39

Date: November 1918

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper does not contain details of how the results were obtained. Refers to work by Simon Newcomb and Cowell [Philip Herbert Cowell?], to whose work the author should make reference.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 18 November 1918.

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RR/25/39
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November 1918
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Frank Watson Dyson, Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'On the value of the secular acceleration of the mean longitude of the moon' by Edmund Neville Nevill, November 1918, RR/25/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_25_39/referees-report-by-frank-watson-dyson-on-a-paper-on-the-value-of-the-secular-acceleration-of-the-mean-longitude-of-the-moon-by-edmund-neville-nevill, accessed on 16 January 2025

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