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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Referee feels they cannot report on the paper, as they don't have enough knowledge about the subject matter. Suggests more competent referees, naming Whittaker and Baker.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1928].

Endorsed on verso as received 28 July 1927.

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RR/35/36
Earliest possible date
27 July 1927
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Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Charles Galton Darwin

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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'On periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems differential equations' by Thomas MacFarland Cherry, 27 July 1927, RR/35/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_35_36/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-on-periodic-solutions-of-hamiltonian-systems-differential-equations-by-thomas-macfarland-cherry, accessed on 15 February 2026

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