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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication.The paper is 'much too long'. The author explains disturbances in terms of ionic dispersion and hasn't noticed that Eccles forshadowed this explanation in 1912.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 April 1932.

Reference number
RR/47/30
Earliest possible date
April 1932
Physical description
Standardised form (type D) and report on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edward Victor Appleton

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Edward Victor Appleton, Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'Musical atmospherics' by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley, April 1932, RR/47/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_47_30/referees-report-by-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-musical-atmospherics-by-thomas-lydwell-eckersley, accessed on 26 April 2025

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