| RefNo | RR/1/120 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Of such ellipsoids, consisting of homogeneous matter, as are capable of having the resultant of the attraction of the mass upon a particle in the surface, and a centrifugal force caused by revolving about one of the axes, made perpendicular to the surface' by James Ivory |
| Date | 10 February 1838 |
| Description | Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as is not an original memoir and is more like a 'commentary on upon an original memoir'. There is a part of the paper which is 'redundant'.
Subject: Astronomy/Mathematics
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1837]. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0009 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |
| NA7611 | Ivory; Sir; James (1765 - 1842); mathematician | 1765 - 1842 |