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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Natural convection in liquids' by O A Saunders

Reference number: RR/66/271

Date: 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Considers some of the concluding statements to be untrue. Found the author's inclusion of 'huge' diagrams to be an inconvenience which delayed his reporting on the paper.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

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RR/66/271
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1939
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Standardised form (type E)
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4 pages
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Natural convection in liquids' by O A Saunders, 1939, RR/66/271, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_271/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-natural-convection-in-liquids-by-o-a-saunders, accessed on 15 March 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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