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Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'On maintained convective motion in a fluid heated from below' by Anne Pellew and Richard Vynne Southwell

Reference number: RR/67/332

Date: July 1940

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication. The opening sentence is unfortunate and should be changed. Some modifications A reference to A R Low should be made.

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 Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].

Endorsed on verso as received 15 July 1940.

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RR/67/332
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July 1940
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Harold Jeffreys, Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'On maintained convective motion in a fluid heated from below' by Anne Pellew and Richard Vynne Southwell, July 1940, RR/67/332, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_332/referees-report-by-harold-jeffreys-on-a-paper-on-maintained-convective-motion-in-a-fluid-heated-from-below-by-anne-pellew-and-richard-vynne-southwell, accessed on 11 September 2024

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