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Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Progressive lightning IV-The discharge mechanism' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland

Reference number: RR/63/89

Date: October 1937

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 11 October 1937.

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October 1937
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Progressive lightning IV-The discharge mechanism' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, October 1937, RR/63/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_89/referees-report-by-charles-thomson-rees-wilson-on-a-paper-progressive-lightning-iv-the-discharge-mechanism-by-basil-ferdinand-jamieson-schonland, accessed on 20 July 2025

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