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  <dc:title>Second referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'Investigation of a new and simple series, by which the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference may easily be computed to any required degree of accuracy' by William Rutherford</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Finds the problem difficult and impossible. 

Thinks the Royal Medal should be given to a paper on pure mathematics. A paper by George Biddell Airy is of the highest claim. 

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']</dc:description>
  <dc:date>10 November 1841</dc:date>
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