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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Instability of fluids heated from below' by Krishna Chandra

Reference number: RR/61/82

Date: June 1936

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in part. The paper is interesting but much longer than necessary. It could be reduced to half of its current length. Some of the forumlas don't match up with the results in the columns.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 26 June 1936.

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RR/61/82
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June 1936
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Instability of fluids heated from below' by Krishna Chandra, June 1936, RR/61/82, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_61_82/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-instability-of-fluids-heated-from-below-by-krishna-chandra, accessed on 07 November 2025

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