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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1930].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 December 1929.

Reference number
RR/40/96
Earliest possible date
December 1929
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Leonard Bairstow

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Leonard Bairstow, Second referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the problem of hydrodynamic stability. I. uniform shearing motion in a viscous fluid' by Richard Vynne Southwell and Letitia Chitty, December 1929, RR/40/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_40_96/second-referees-report-by-leonard-bairstow-on-a-paper-on-the-problem-of-hydrodynamic-stability-i-uniform-shearing-motion-in-a-viscous-fluid-by-richard-vynne-southwell-and-letitia-chitty, accessed on 16 February 2026

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