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Referee's report by Edward James Reed, on a paper 'The variation of stability with draught of water in ships' by Francis Elgar

Reference number: RR/9/204

Date: 21 April 1884

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. If it wasn't published, it would 'deprive the Society of a valuable opportunity of recording in them a decidedly and very valuable step in the propers of the science of naval construction'.

Subject: Engineering

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1884].

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RR/9/204
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21 April 1884
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward James Reed

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Edward James Reed, Referee's report by Edward James Reed, on a paper 'The variation of stability with draught of water in ships' by Francis Elgar, 21 April 1884, RR/9/204, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_204/referees-report-by-edward-james-reed-on-a-paper-the-variation-of-stability-with-draught-of-water-in-ships-by-francis-elgar, accessed on 05 December 2024

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