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Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The light of the night sky: Analysis of intensity variations observed at the Cape, at Canberra and in England' by Harold Spencer Jones

Reference number: RR/38/85

Date: November 1929

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The conclusions of the paper are of considerable interest.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1930].

Endorsed on verso as received 2 November 1929.

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Alfred Fowler, Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The light of the night sky: Analysis of intensity variations observed at the Cape, at Canberra and in England' by Harold Spencer Jones, November 1929, RR/38/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_85/referees-report-by-alfred-fowler-on-a-paper-the-light-of-the-night-sky-analysis-of-intensity-variations-observed-at-the-cape-at-canberra-and-in-england-by-harold-spencer-jones, accessed on 07 June 2026

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