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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Does not have time to give a fuller review.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1879]

Reference number
RR/8/154
Earliest possible date
13 June 1879
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

John William Strutt

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John William Strutt, Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 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 June 1879, RR/8/154, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_154/referees-report-by-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-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 12 September 2024

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