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Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Theory of the measurement of wind by shooting spheres upward' by Lewis Fry Richardson

Reference number: RR/28/5

Date: 1922

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper meets the practical needs of meteorologists. The additional paper should not be published.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1923]

No received date.

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RR/28/5
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1922
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4 pages
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Sydney Chapman, Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Theory of the measurement of wind by shooting spheres upward' by Lewis Fry Richardson, 1922, RR/28/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_5/referees-report-by-sydney-chapman-on-a-paper-theory-of-the-measurement-of-wind-by-shooting-spheres-upward-by-lewis-fry-richardson, accessed on 13 July 2025

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