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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Periodic orbits of the second genus near the straight-line equilibrium points in the problem of three bodies' by Daniel Buchanan

Reference number: RR/33/27

Date: October 1926

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Referee cannot come to decision regarding publication and asks to be excused from doing so. He thinks the paper 'would not do any discredit to the Proc[eedings]'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1927].

Endorsed on verso as received 15 October 1926.

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RR/33/27
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October 1926
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Periodic orbits of the second genus near the straight-line equilibrium points in the problem of three bodies' by Daniel Buchanan, October 1926, RR/33/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_33_27/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-periodic-orbits-of-the-second-genus-near-the-straight-line-equilibrium-points-in-the-problem-of-three-bodies-by-daniel-buchanan, accessed on 13 March 2026

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