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Third referee's report by Alan Herries Wilson, on a paper 'Classical electrodynamics without singularities' by H McManus

Reference number: RR/71/198

Date: 15 June 1948

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Returns the paper and recommends it for publication. The amendments have much improved the paper. 'I have no objection if you will tell the author that the improvements he has made in the paper are duly [?] appreciated'. Comments on the Royal Society standard of not using 'we' in papers,of which the author should be warned, and given the opportunity to rectify this himself.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 17 June 1948.

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RR/71/198
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15 June 1948
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Alan Herries Wilson, Third referee's report by Alan Herries Wilson, on a paper 'Classical electrodynamics without singularities' by H McManus, 15 June 1948, RR/71/198, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_71_198/third-referees-report-by-alan-herries-wilson-on-a-paper-classical-electrodynamics-without-singularities-by-h-mcmanus, accessed on 11 December 2024

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