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Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'On the flow of electric current in semi-infinite media in which the specific resistance is a function of the depth' by Louis Vessot King

Reference number: RR/48/70

Date: January 1934

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', with revision. Has focused on the applied mathematical parts. Finds some of the reasoning obscure. Provides detailed recommendations for revisions, including clearer explanation of the methods and improvements to the use of language. Refers to work of Edward Charles Titchmarsh, Arthur Lee Dixon, William Leonard Ferrar and Edmund Taylor Whittaker.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 12 January 1934.

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RR/48/70
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January 1934
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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George Neville Watson, Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'On the flow of electric current in semi-infinite media in which the specific resistance is a function of the depth' by Louis Vessot King, January 1934, RR/48/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_48_70/referees-report-by-george-neville-watson-on-a-paper-on-the-flow-of-electric-current-in-semi-infinite-media-in-which-the-specific-resistance-is-a-function-of-the-depth-by-louis-vessot-king, accessed on 12 July 2025

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