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Referee's report by William Pole, on a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet

Reference number: RR/8/1

Date: 17 March 1877

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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', suggests publication in the Proceedings to follow on from an earlier work published there by the same author. Refers to work by François-Joseph Fétis 'Histoire Generale de la Musique Volume II' 1869, on which the current paper does not add much.

Subject: Mathematics, Music

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1877]

Reference number
RR/8/1
Earliest possible date
17 March 1877
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Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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William Pole

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William Pole, Referee's report by William Pole, on a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet, 17 March 1877, RR/8/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_1/referees-report-by-william-pole-on-a-paper-on-the-hindoo-hindu-division-of-the-octave-with-some-additions-to-the-theory-of-the-higher-orders-by-robert-holford-macdowall-bosanquet, accessed on 10 February 2025

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