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Sixth letter from Harold Spencer Jones, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The Earth's magnetic field in Southern Africa at the epoch, 1 July 1930' by E N Grindley

Reference number: RR/66/118

Date: 21 December 1945

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Sectional Committee: Not stated [Physics]

Returns the charts. It has taken longer than expected to complete them, both due to the heavy amount of work involved, and the transfer of some Royal Observatory work backfrom Abinger to Greenwich.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

No received date.

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RR/66/118
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21 December 1945
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript

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Sixth letter from Harold Spencer Jones, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The Earth's magnetic field in Southern Africa at the epoch, 1 July 1930' by E N Grindley, 21 December 1945, RR/66/118, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_118/sixth-letter-from-harold-spencer-jones-to-john-david-griffith-davies-regarding-a-paper-the-earths-magnetic-field-in-southern-africa-at-the-epoch-1-july-1930-by-e-n-grindley, accessed on 10 October 2024

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