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Referee's report by James Challis, on a paper 'Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by George Biddell Airy

Reference number: RR/3/4

Date: 18 February 1856

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Recommended for publication in the '[Philosophical] Transactions of the Royal Society'. Referee has no hesitation in recommending its being printed as 'the greatest attention to accuracy appears in the arrangements for making the experiment and in the calculations formed'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions, 1856]

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RR/3/4
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18 February 1856
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Letter on Paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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James Challis

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James Challis, Referee's report by James Challis, on a paper 'Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by George Biddell Airy, 18 February 1856, RR/3/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_4/referees-report-by-james-challis-on-a-paper-account-of-pendulum-experiments-undertaken-in-the-harton-colliery-for-the-purpose-of-determining-the-mean-density-of-the-earth-by-george-biddell-airy, accessed on 09 December 2024

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