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Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Heat flow in South Africa' by Edward Crisp Bullard

Reference number: RR/66/40

Date: August 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The three papers should be published in the order A E Benfield, Krige and Edward Crisp Bullard, as the final paper uses data from the first two.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on recto as received 30 August 1939.

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RR/66/40
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August 1939
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Harold Jeffreys, Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Heat flow in South Africa' by Edward Crisp Bullard, August 1939, RR/66/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_40/referees-report-by-harold-jeffreys-on-a-paper-heat-flow-in-south-africa-by-edward-crisp-bullard, accessed on 10 December 2025

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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