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Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Complex potentials in two-dimensional elasticity. II' by A C Stevenson to Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Reference number: RR/67/406

Date: 20 December 1940

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Asks him to give an opinion on whether the paper should be published after the war, in light of Jeffery's comments.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1945].

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RR/67/406
Earliest possible date
20 December 1940
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Complex potentials in two-dimensional elasticity. II' by A C Stevenson to Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 20 December 1940, RR/67/406, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_406/letter-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-complex-potentials-in-two-dimensional-elasticity-ii-by-a-c-stevenson-to-geoffrey-ingram-taylor, accessed on 15 April 2026

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