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Referee's report by James Gray, on a paper 'Analysis of the swimming of long and narrow animals' by Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Reference number: RR/77/46

Date: 25 March 1952

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Paper reference code: A34

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Gray writes: 'I cannot asses the mathematics, but from biological point of view the paper is very interesting [?], Taylor has to make assumptions which may or may not prove legitimate.'

[Published in Proceedings A, 1952].

Date received not given.

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RR/77/46
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25 March 1952
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James Gray, Referee's report by James Gray, on a paper 'Analysis of the swimming of long and narrow animals' by Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 25 March 1952, RR/77/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_46/referees-report-by-james-gray-on-a-paper-analysis-of-the-swimming-of-long-and-narrow-animals-by-sir-geoffrey-ingram-taylor, accessed on 08 June 2026

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