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Referee's report by Charles Watkins Merrifield, on a paper 'On the calculus of factorials' by H F C Logan

Reference number: RR/7/321

Date: 21 June 1874

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. An abstract in the Proceedings is 'all that it merits'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1873].

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RR/7/321
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21 June 1874
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Report on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Watkins Merrifield

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Charles Watkins Merrifield, Referee's report by Charles Watkins Merrifield, on a paper 'On the calculus of factorials' by H F C Logan, 21 June 1874, RR/7/321, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_321/referees-report-by-charles-watkins-merrifield-on-a-paper-on-the-calculus-of-factorials-by-h-f-c-logan, accessed on 22 April 2025

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