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Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'On a method of investigating periodicities disturbed series, with special reference to Wolfer's sunspot numbers' by George Udny Yule

Reference number: RR/34/135

Date: December 1926

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is careful and useful.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1926]

Endorsed on verso as received 22 December 1926.

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RR/34/135
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December 1926
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2 pages
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Frank Watson Dyson, Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'On a method of investigating periodicities disturbed series, with special reference to Wolfer's sunspot numbers' by George Udny Yule, December 1926, RR/34/135, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_34_135/referees-report-by-frank-watson-dyson-on-a-paper-on-a-method-of-investigating-periodicities-disturbed-series-with-special-reference-to-wolfers-sunspot-numbers-by-george-udny-yule, accessed on 11 February 2026

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