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Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'On Laplace’s differential equations for the tides' by Joseph Proudman

Reference number: RR/68/119

Date: June 1941

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the formulae be more clearly written, to save 'a considerable bill for correction'.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies 'see note attached' which is not present.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on recto as received 5 June 1941.

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RR/68/119
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June 1941
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2 pages
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James Hopwood Jeans, Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'On Laplace’s differential equations for the tides' by Joseph Proudman, June 1941, RR/68/119, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_119/referees-report-by-james-hopwood-jeans-on-a-paper-on-laplaces-differential-equations-for-the-tides-by-joseph-proudman, accessed on 08 December 2023

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