| Reference number | RR/45/116 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the theory of errors and least squares' by Harold Jeffreys |
| Date | [August 1932] |
| Description | Sectional Committee: Mathematics
Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. 'I think the author might be told (as a quotation from a referee's report) that it is a disrespectful to the Society, and confusing to the referees and the printers, to submit a manuscript written on scraps of old examination papers and full of corrections and erasures'.
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1932]
Endorsed on verso as received 2 August 1932. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Standardised form (type D) |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1932.0170 Vol.138 1932 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA2270 | Whittaker; Sir; Edmund Taylor (1873 - 1956); mathematician and astronomer | 1873 - 1956 |
| NA6946 | Jeffreys; Sir; Harold (1891 - 1989) | 1891 - 1989 |