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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The flight of the dipterous fly Muscina stabulans Fallén' by F S J Hollick

Reference number: RR/67/239

Date: 1940

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is carefully written. The aerodynamical considerations and technique seem good.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1940].

Date received not given.

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1940
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The flight of the dipterous fly Muscina stabulans Fallén' by F S J Hollick, 1940, RR/67/239, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_239/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-the-flight-of-the-dipterous-fly-muscina-stabulans-fallén-by-f-s-j-hollick, accessed on 19 April 2026

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