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Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Short period fluctuations in the characteristics of wireless echoes from the ionosphere' by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley and F T Farmer to Thomas Lydwell Eckersley

Reference number: RR/67/116

Date: 16 December 1940

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The paper has been passed for confidential printing, but not publication. Of the two Government departments acting as censors, one believes the paper was clear to be published and the other regarded the paper as 'definitely of value to the enemy'. Publication will need to be withheld until after the war. He will receive one copy of his paper for use as a confidential document.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1945].

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RR/67/116
Earliest possible date
16 December 1940
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript

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Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Short period fluctuations in the characteristics of wireless echoes from the ionosphere' by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley and F T Farmer to Thomas Lydwell Eckersley, 16 December 1940, RR/67/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_116/letter-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-short-period-fluctuations-in-the-characteristics-of-wireless-echoes-from-the-ionosphere-by-thomas-lydwell-eckersley-and-f-t-farmer-to-thomas-lydwell-eckersley, accessed on 09 December 2024

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