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Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'Diffusion in absorbing media' by P S H Henry

Reference number: RR/65/120

Date: November 1938

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. if at all. Some parts of the mathematics in the paper are unnecessary and could be described more shortly and generally.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1939].

Endorsed on verso as received 11 November 1938.

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RR/65/120
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November 1938
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8 pages
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Douglas Rayner Hartree, Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'Diffusion in absorbing media' by P S H Henry, November 1938, RR/65/120, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_120/referees-report-by-douglas-rayner-hartree-on-a-paper-diffusion-in-absorbing-media-by-p-s-h-henry, accessed on 13 December 2025

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

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