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Letter from W Lewis, regarding a paper 'Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems VIIA - Biharmonic analysis as applied to the flexure and extension of flat elastic plates' by L Fox and Richard Vynne Southwell

Reference number: RR/68/183

Date: 25 October 1941

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Sectional Committee: Engineering

Dispatched copies of the paper on 14th October, with a request for return of receipts. 'As usual Professor [Geoffrey Ingram Taylor] has not returned the receipt and on this occasion I have received no receipt from you. I trust that the 15 copies reached you safely.'

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on recto as received 27 October 1941.

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RR/68/183
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25 October 1941
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Letter from W Lewis, regarding a paper 'Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems VIIA - Biharmonic analysis as applied to the flexure and extension of flat elastic plates' by L Fox and Richard Vynne Southwell, 25 October 1941, RR/68/183, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_183/letter-from-w-lewis-regarding-a-paper-relaxation-methods-applied-to-engineering-problems-viia-biharmonic-analysis-as-applied-to-the-flexure-and-extension-of-flat-elastic-plates-by-l-fox-and-richard-vynne-southwell, accessed on 05 October 2024

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