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Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Investigation of atmospheric electrical variations at sunrise and sunset' by E H Nichols

Reference number: RR/23/66

Date: 1916

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, although the referee states that 'there is nothing novel in the method s employed and the results obtained are not very striking, the paper - which is a short one -is I think worth publishing'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received [1916].

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RR/23/66
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1916
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Investigation of atmospheric electrical variations at sunrise and sunset' by E H Nichols, 1916, RR/23/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23_66/referees-report-by-charles-thomson-rees-wilson-on-a-paper-investigation-of-atmospheric-electrical-variations-at-sunrise-and-sunset-by-e-h-nichols, accessed on 15 November 2025

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