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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. As the author is visiting soon, the referee hopes to discus the papers with him and gain some clarification before writing a fuller report.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics

[Both papers published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1879]

Reference number
RR/8/153
Earliest possible date
13 May 1879
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Thomson

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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on two papers 'On the precession of a viscous spheroid, and on the remote history of the Earth' and 'Problems connected with the tides of viscous spheroid' by George Howard Darwin, 13 May 1879, RR/8/153, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_153/referees-report-by-william-thomson-lord-kelvin-on-two-papers-on-the-precession-of-a-viscous-spheroid-and-on-the-remote-history-of-the-earth-and-problems-connected-with-the-tides-of-viscous-spheroid-by-george-howard-darwin, accessed on 25 April 2025

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