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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is 'well eorthy' of publication but the results should be 'more clearly given'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1870].

Reference number
RR/7/53
Earliest possible date
26 March 1870
Physical description
Report on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

James Clerk Maxwell

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James Clerk Maxwell, Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'On the thermodynamic theory of waves of finite longitudinal disturbance' by William John Macquorn Rankine, 26 March 1870, RR/7/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_53/referees-report-by-james-clerk-maxwell-on-a-paper-on-the-thermodynamic-theory-of-waves-of-finite-longitudinal-disturbance-by-william-john-macquorn-rankine, accessed on 23 June 2025

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