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Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'Stress systems in an infinite sector' by Wilfred Charles Furness Shepherd

Reference number: RR/52/99

Date: 17 September 1934

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Sectional committee: Engineering

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. He is unsure whether the paper contributes anything new to science. He doubts whether the results have any practical application.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1935].

Endorsed on verso as received 19 September 1934.

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RR/52/99
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17 September 1934
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2 pages
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Richard Vynne Southwell, Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'Stress systems in an infinite sector' by Wilfred Charles Furness Shepherd, 17 September 1934, RR/52/99, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_52_99/referees-report-by-richard-vynne-southwell-on-a-paper-stress-systems-in-an-infinite-sector-by-wilfred-charles-furness-shepherd, accessed on 20 January 2025

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