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Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'On the disturbance of the steady flow of an inviscid liquid between parallel planes' by John Lighton Synge

Reference number: RR/51/96

Date: March 1934

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

No clear statement regarding publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work of John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William McFadden Orr. Does not feel competent to criticise the mathematical sections.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 3 March 1934.

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RR/51/96
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Richard Vynne Southwell, Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'On the disturbance of the steady flow of an inviscid liquid between parallel planes' by John Lighton Synge, March 1934, RR/51/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_51_96/referees-report-by-richard-vynne-southwell-on-a-paper-on-the-disturbance-of-the-steady-flow-of-an-inviscid-liquid-between-parallel-planes-by-john-lighton-synge, accessed on 25 March 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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