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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to equations of James Clerk Maxwell. The paper is interesting, and provides new and suggestive uses for the equations.

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

Endorsed on verso as received November 1926.

Reference number
RR/34/68
Earliest possible date
November 1926
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'An analysis of the electromagnetic field into moving elements' by Samuel Roslington Milner, November 1926, RR/34/68, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_34_68/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-an-analysis-of-the-electromagnetic-field-into-moving-elements-by-samuel-roslington-milner, accessed on 18 February 2025

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