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

Reference number: RR/67/408

Date: 31 December 1940

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The paper could be published now, however it's references to a previous confidential paper results are preventing this. The paper should be pulished after the war.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 17 January 1941.

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RR/67/408
Earliest possible date
31 December 1940
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter from Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Complex potentials in two-dimensional elasticity. II' by A C Stevenson to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 31 December 1940, RR/67/408, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_408/letter-from-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-complex-potentials-in-two-dimensional-elasticity-ii-by-a-c-stevenson-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 21 April 2026

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