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Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On the analytical theory of the attraction of solids bounded by surfaces of a hypothetical class including the ellipsoid' by William Fishburn Donkin

Reference number: RR/4/69

Date: 26 January 1860

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1860].

Reference number
RR/4/69
Earliest possible date
26 January 1860
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On the analytical theory of the attraction of solids bounded by surfaces of a hypothetical class including the ellipsoid' by William Fishburn Donkin, 26 January 1860, RR/4/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_4_69/referees-report-by-arthur-cayley-on-a-paper-on-the-analytical-theory-of-the-attraction-of-solids-bounded-by-surfaces-of-a-hypothetical-class-including-the-ellipsoid-by-william-fishburn-donkin, accessed on 21 April 2025

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