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Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'Measurements of the amount of ozone in the earth’s atmosphere and its relation to other geophysical conditions' by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson and D N Harrison

Reference number: RR/33/55

Date: 16 January 1926

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. He is aware that the author wished for the paper to be published in Proceedings, but it's length and content seems better suited to Philosophical Transactions. He recommends that the paper be split into two shorter parts, one of which should be published in Philosophical Transactions and the other in Proceedings.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1926].

Endorsed on verso as received 18 January 1926.

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RR/33/55
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16 January 1926
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Standardised form (type D) and typed note on paper
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4 pages
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George Clarke Simpson

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George Clarke Simpson, Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'Measurements of the amount of ozone in the earth’s atmosphere and its relation to other geophysical conditions' by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson and D N Harrison, 16 January 1926, RR/33/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_33_55/referees-report-by-george-clarke-simpson-on-a-paper-measurements-of-the-amount-of-ozone-in-the-earths-atmosphere-and-its-relation-to-other-geophysical-conditions-by-gordon-miller-bourne-dobson-and-d-n-harrison, accessed on 01 December 2024

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