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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The electrostatic capabilities of two spheres and of two parallel cylinders' by A Russell

Reference number: RR/32/116

Date: 24 March 1925

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The author 'does not add anything of value, from the mathematical point of view, to what is already known'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 March 1925.

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RR/32/116
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24 March 1925
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2 pages
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The electrostatic capabilities of two spheres and of two parallel cylinders' by A Russell, 24 March 1925, RR/32/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_32_116/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-the-electrostatic-capabilities-of-two-spheres-and-of-two-parallel-cylinders-by-a-russell, accessed on 09 June 2026

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