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Letter from Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Finite strains in an anisotropic elastic continuum' by James Gardner Oldroyd to, D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/73/39

Date: 23 February 1950

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Paper reference code: A25

Jeffreys suggests further Referees for Oldroyd's paper, stating that Francis Dominic Murnaghan is 'the only man anywhere that knows both [absolute differential calculus and large strain theory]'. Also suggests John Lighton Synge, Hermann Bondi and Edward Arthur Milne.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1950].

Endorsed on recto as received 24 February 1950.

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RR/73/39
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23 February 1950
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2 pages
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Manuscript
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Oldroyd; James Gardner (1921-1982); British mathematician; rheologist

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Harold Jeffreys

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Harold Jeffreys, Letter from Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Finite strains in an anisotropic elastic continuum' by James Gardner Oldroyd to, D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 23 February 1950, RR/73/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_73_39/letter-from-harold-jeffreys-on-a-paper-finite-strains-in-an-anisotropic-elastic-continuum-by-james-gardner-oldroyd-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 07 June 2026

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