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Letter from Sidney Barrington Gates, on a paper 'On secondary circulation in fluid flow' by William Rede Hawthorne, to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/73/168

Date: 22 July 1950

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Paper reference code: A123

Requests a second opinion on Hawthorne's paper before recommending it for publication, and enquires if he is authorised to send the paper to [Arthur] Fage.

Written from Ash Vale, Aldershot [England].

[Published in Proceedings A, 1951].

Endorsed on recto as received 22 July 1950.

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RR/73/168
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22 July 1950
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Sidney Barrington Gates, Letter from Sidney Barrington Gates, on a paper 'On secondary circulation in fluid flow' by William Rede Hawthorne, to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 22 July 1950, RR/73/168, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_73_168/letter-from-sidney-barrington-gates-on-a-paper-on-secondary-circulation-in-fluid-flow-by-william-rede-hawthorne-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 February 2026

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