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Second letter from Charles Seymour Wright, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The Earth's magnetic field in Southern Africa at the epoch, 1 July 1930' by E N Grindley

Reference number: RR/66/108

Date: 05 March 1940

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Sectional Committee: Not stated [Physics]

The paper should not be published at present, as it is possible magnetic mines may be laid in South African waters. 'My feeling is therefore that we should play for safety and I expect nobody but the enemy is likely to be inconvenienced seriously by delay in publication'. Although the Navy has not been consulted, they would likely take the attidude that publication should be suppressed for the suration of the war.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 7 March 1940.

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RR/66/108
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05 March 1940
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Second letter from Charles Seymour Wright, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The Earth's magnetic field in Southern Africa at the epoch, 1 July 1930' by E N Grindley, 05 March 1940, RR/66/108, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_108/second-letter-from-charles-seymour-wright-to-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton-regarding-a-paper-the-earths-magnetic-field-in-southern-africa-at-the-epoch-1-july-1930-by-e-n-grindley, accessed on 08 September 2024

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