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

Reference number: RR/3/6

Date: 13 March 1856

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Referee states he 'can have no hesitation in recommending the paper'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions, 1856]

Reference number
RR/3/6
Earliest possible date
13 March 1856
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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George Gabriel Stokes

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George Gabriel Stokes, Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Account of experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by George Biddell Airy, 13 March 1856, RR/3/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_6/referees-report-by-george-gabriel-stokes-on-a-paper-account-of-experiments-undertaken-in-the-harton-colliery-for-the-purpose-of-determining-the-mean-density-of-the-earth-by-george-biddell-airy, accessed on 11 October 2024

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