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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Electronic orbits on the relativity theory' by O R Baldwin and G B Jeffery

Reference number: RR/33/16

Date: January 1926

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication. The physical point of the paper has 'no interest' and it is is not important enough for publication by the Royal Society.

Note added that the referee has withdrawn his report and the paper has been accepted for publication by the Committee.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1926].

Endorsed on verso as received 27 January 1926.

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RR/33/16
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January 1926
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4 pages
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Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Arthur Stanley Eddington, Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Electronic orbits on the relativity theory' by O R Baldwin and G B Jeffery, January 1926, RR/33/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_33_16/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-electronic-orbits-on-the-relativity-theory-by-o-r-baldwin-and-g-b-jeffery, accessed on 16 June 2025

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