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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On the turbulence of a tidal current' by Joseph Proudman

Reference number: RR/67/342

Date: 1940

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Sectional committee: Not stated

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. All the matter in the first eleven pages could be quoted directly from Reynolds.

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].

Date received not given.

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1940
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2 pages
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On the turbulence of a tidal current' by Joseph Proudman, 1940, RR/67/342, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_342/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-on-the-turbulence-of-a-tidal-current-by-joseph-proudman, accessed on 17 January 2025

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