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Referee's report by Geoffrey Thomas Bennett, on a paper 'On the thirteen semi-regular solids of Archimedes, and on their development by the transformation of certain plane configurations' by D'arcy Wentworth Thompson

Reference number: RR/29/32

Date: 19 April 1924

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Sectional committee: [Mathematics]

It is 'interesting and worthy of record'. It is a 'peculiar and unusual' paper and some of the geometry is 'very amateurish'. Wishes for someones else's opinion to be considered before a decision is made.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1925].

Endorsed on verso as received 22 April 1924.

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RR/29/32
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19 April 1924
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Standardised form (type D) and typed report on paper
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7 pages
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Typescript
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Geoffrey Thomas Bennett

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Geoffrey Thomas Bennett, Referee's report by Geoffrey Thomas Bennett, on a paper 'On the thirteen semi-regular solids of Archimedes, and on their development by the transformation of certain plane configurations' by D'arcy Wentworth Thompson, 19 April 1924, RR/29/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_29_32/referees-report-by-geoffrey-thomas-bennett-on-a-paper-on-the-thirteen-semi-regular-solids-of-archimedes-and-on-their-development-by-the-transformation-of-certain-plane-configurations-by-darcy-wentworth-thompson, accessed on 13 January 2025

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