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Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'On the forms of waterlines of ships and errors in their numeric integration' by Westcott Stile Abell

Reference number: RR/57/66

Date: September 1936

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The methods may be of use to ship design, but does not advance scientific knowledge.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 14 Septmber 1936.

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RR/57/66
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September 1936
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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Manuscript
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Abell; Wescott Stile (1877-1961); naval architect

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Ernest Frederick Relf

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Ernest Frederick Relf, Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'On the forms of waterlines of ships and errors in their numeric integration' by Westcott Stile Abell, September 1936, RR/57/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_57_66/referees-report-by-ernest-frederick-relf-on-a-paper-on-the-forms-of-waterlines-of-ships-and-errors-in-their-numeric-integration-by-westcott-stile-abell, accessed on 06 September 2026

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