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Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B.W.I. Final report' by Cecil Frank Powell

Reference number: RR/63/50

Date: March 1937

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. Some reference to previous work on amplitudes is needed and the ratio of the velocities of compressional and transverse waves in rubber would perhaps be different from what is described. The impossibility of resolving P and S at short distances could be elaborated on.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 2 March 1937.

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RR/63/50
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Harold Jeffreys, Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B.W.I. Final report' by Cecil Frank Powell, March 1937, RR/63/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_50/referees-report-by-harold-jeffreys-on-a-paper-the-royal-society-expedition-to-montserrat-bwi-final-report-by-cecil-frank-powell, accessed on 13 December 2025

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