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Referee's report by Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock, on a paper 'Stability of a viscous liquid contained between two rotating cylinders' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Reference number: RR/28/22

Date: 22 April 1922

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Considers 'the assumptions are wrong and the conclusions are wrong, so that it is quite possible that the symbolical part is right'. Gives a thorough criticism of the experimental method.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1923]

Endorsed on verso as received 25 April 1922.

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RR/28/22
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22 April 1922
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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10 pages
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Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock, Referee's report by Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock, on a paper 'Stability of a viscous liquid contained between two rotating cylinders' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 22 April 1922, RR/28/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_22/referees-report-by-henry-reginald-arnulph-mallock-on-a-paper-stability-of-a-viscous-liquid-contained-between-two-rotating-cylinders-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor, accessed on 09 September 2026

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