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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 H Wooldridge, on behalf of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

Reference number: RR/67/122

Date: 29 January 1941

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Papers are printed at the Royal Society's expense, solely for government departments, at a considerable loss. The only copies that will be printed are those ordered by the government departments. Thanks him for providing a list of departments who might be interested in the paper. Apologises for not making clear the the papers are confidential.

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

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RR/67/122
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29 January 1941
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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 H Wooldridge, on behalf of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 29 January 1941, RR/67/122, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_122/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-h-wooldridge-on-behalf-of-the-department-of-scientific-and-industrial-research, accessed on 13 December 2024

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