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Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John Owen Evans

Reference number: RR/4/245

Date: 12 June 1861

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1861].

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RR/4/245
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12 June 1861
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Sabine

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Edward Sabine, Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John Owen Evans, 12 June 1861, RR/4/245, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_4_245/referees-report-by-edward-sabine-on-a-paper-on-the-effect-produced-on-the-deviations-of-the-compass-by-the-length-and-arrangement-of-the-compass-needles-and-on-a-new-mode-of-correcting-the-quadrantal-deviation-by-archibald-smith-and-frederick-john-owen-evans, accessed on 19 April 2025

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