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Reference numberRR/19/62
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'The motion of viscous liquid due to uniform and periodic motion maintained over a segment of an infinite plane boundary' by W J Harrison
Date8 November 1912
DescriptionSectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Considers the suggestion that the author based their methods on an experimentally unsound theory is only relevant at the edges, and that the author's method of overcoming the problems 'is as good as any other'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1913]

Endorsed on verso as received 9 November 1912.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type C)
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1913.0002 Vol.88 1913
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1259Orr; William McFadden (1866 - 1934)1866 - 1934
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