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Referee's report by Ernest Gold on a paper 'The effects of thunderstorms and lightning discharges on the Earth's electric field' by T W Wormell

Reference number: RR/65/285

Date: 27 November 1938

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The author should ass a two page summary. All the plates are not required and a smaller selection should be added.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1939].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 December 1938.

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RR/65/285
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27 November 1938
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Ernest Gold, Referee's report by Ernest Gold on a paper 'The effects of thunderstorms and lightning discharges on the Earth's electric field' by T W Wormell, 27 November 1938, RR/65/285, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_285/referees-report-by-ernest-gold-on-a-paper-the-effects-of-thunderstorms-and-lightning-discharges-on-the-earths-electric-field-by-t-w-wormell, accessed on 18 June 2025

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