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Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Surface reflexion of earthquake waves' by George Walker Walker

Reference number: RR/24/85

Date: August 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Is not sure how the seismic charts could be reproduced.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1919]

Endorsed on verso as received 18 August 1917.

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RR/24/85
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August 1917
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4 pages
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Horace Lamb, Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Surface reflexion of earthquake waves' by George Walker Walker, August 1917, RR/24/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_85/referees-report-by-horace-lamb-on-a-paper-surface-reflexion-of-earthquake-waves-by-george-walker-walker, accessed on 22 April 2025

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