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Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Seismic investigations on the Palaeozoic floor of east England' by Edward Crisp Bullard, T F Gaskell, W B Harland and C Kerr-Grant

Reference number: RR/66/41

Date: October 1939

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the paper be seen by a geologist to comment on the relevant sections. Suggests the authors check the names referenced carefully, as a few erors have been noted. Comments on the tables and formulae.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 21 October 1939.

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October 1939
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Sydney Chapman, Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Seismic investigations on the Palaeozoic floor of east England' by Edward Crisp Bullard, T F Gaskell, W B Harland and C Kerr-Grant, October 1939, RR/66/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_41/referees-report-by-sydney-chapman-on-a-paper-seismic-investigations-on-the-palaeozoic-floor-of-east-england-by-edward-crisp-bullard-t-f-gaskell-w-b-harland-and-c-kerr-grant, accessed on 22 March 2025

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