Record

RefNoNLB/64/751
AltRefNoNLB/64 p423
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Horace] Lamb [Chairman of the Mathematics Committee] FRS
Date14 June 1923
DescriptionInforms that after 'much delay' [Edmund Taylor] Whittaker has finally returned [Alexander Percy] MacMahon's 'On a class of transcendents of which the bessel functions are a particular case' and will be published under Standing Order 43 as instructed by a previous letter from Horace Lamb; also asks for approval to publish under the same standing order Miss [Nina M] Hosalis' 'Seismic Waves in a Visco-Elastic Earth' as [Geoffrey Ingram] Taylor's report was favourable.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordRR/27/94
RR/29/26
NLB/64/535
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8246Lamb; Sir; Horace (1849 - 1934)1849 - 1934
NA2270Whittaker; Sir; Edmund Taylor (1873 - 1956); mathematician and astronomer1873 - 1956
NA6982MacMahon; Percy Alexander (1854 - 1929); mathematician1854 - 1929
NA6602Taylor; Sir; Geoffrey Ingram (1886 - 1975)1886 - 1975
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
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