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Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'On the diurnal variations of the electric waves occurring in nature, and on the propagation of electric waves round the bend of the earth' by William Henry Eccles

Reference number: RR/19/44

Date: April 1912

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the paper would have been more useful if a greater part had been devoted to a clear account of the observations and evidence.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1912]

Endorsed on verso as received 4 April 1912.

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RR/19/44
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April 1912
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2 pages
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'On the diurnal variations of the electric waves occurring in nature, and on the propagation of electric waves round the bend of the earth' by William Henry Eccles, April 1912, RR/19/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_44/referees-report-by-charles-thomson-rees-wilson-on-a-paper-on-the-diurnal-variations-of-the-electric-waves-occurring-in-nature-and-on-the-propagation-of-electric-waves-round-the-bend-of-the-earth-by-william-henry-eccles, accessed on 22 April 2025

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