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Reference numberRR/68/119
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'On Laplace’s differential equations for the tides' by Joseph Proudman
Date[June 1941]
DescriptionSectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the formulae be more clearly written, to save 'a considerable bill for correction'.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies 'see note attached' which is not present.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 5 June 1941.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type E)
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1942.0002 Vol.179 1942
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
NA1896Proudman; Joseph (1888 - 1975)1888 - 1975
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