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Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on an appendix to a paper 'An investigation of the flow of air an aerofoil of infinite span' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, L W Bryant and D H Williams

Reference number: RR/32/128b

Date: June 1925

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1926]. Appendix has been added to the published paper under the heading 'Note on the connection between the lift on an aerofoil in a wind and the circulation round it'.

Endorsed on verso as received 27 June 1925.

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RR/32/128b
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June 1925
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Sydney Chapman, Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on an appendix to a paper 'An investigation of the flow of air an aerofoil of infinite span' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, L W Bryant and D H Williams, June 1925, RR/32/128b, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_32_128b/referees-report-by-sydney-chapman-on-an-appendix-to-a-paper-an-investigation-of-the-flow-of-air-an-aerofoil-of-infinite-span-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-l-w-bryant-and-d-h-williams, accessed on 17 January 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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