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Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Progressive lightning V. A comparison of photographic and electrical studies of the discharge process' Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, D B Hodges and H Collens

Reference number: RR/65/230

Date: January 1938

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. One of the paragraphs should be omitted since it is not essential and the reasoning seems to be 'fallasious'.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 17 January 1938.

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RR/65/230
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Progressive lightning V. A comparison of photographic and electrical studies of the discharge process' Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, D B Hodges and H Collens, January 1938, RR/65/230, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_230/referees-report-by-charles-thomson-rees-wilson-on-a-paper-progressive-lightning-v-a-comparison-of-photographic-and-electrical-studies-of-the-discharge-process-basil-ferdinand-jamieson-schonland-d-b-hodges-and-h-collens, accessed on 07 June 2026

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