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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On surface cracks in glasses' by Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade and L C Tsien

Reference number: RR/61/7

Date: January 1937

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. There is an unnecessary amount of photographs, some of which seem identical. The paper is 'interesting and well-written'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1937].

Endorsed on verso as received 13 January 1937.

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RR/61/7
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January 1937
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On surface cracks in glasses' by Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade and L C Tsien, January 1937, RR/61/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_61_7/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-on-surface-cracks-in-glasses-by-edward-neville-da-costa-andrade-and-l-c-tsien, accessed on 07 November 2025

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