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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'New methods in statistical mechanic' by Meghnad Saha and Ramesh Chandra

Reference number: RR/39/106

Date: May 1929

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The authors have clearly struggled with the subject, as he himself did with Ralph Howard Fowler. Suggests it is more suitable for a book on the subject, rather than a journal article.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 23 May 1929.

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RR/39/106
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May 1929
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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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 'New methods in statistical mechanic' by Meghnad Saha and Ramesh Chandra, May 1929, RR/39/106, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_39_106/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-new-methods-in-statistical-mechanic-by-meghnad-saha-and-ramesh-chandra, accessed on 29 April 2025

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