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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 the Meteorological Office and reply

Reference number: RR/67/129

Date: 07 April 1941

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Letter from the Assistant Secretary, asking if the recipient would like a copy of the paper for confidential use. Each copy costs two shillings. He would be glad to have the official order by the end of the week.
Reply from the Meteorological Office (dated 16 April 1941), requesting one copy of the paper.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 17 April 1941.

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RR/67/129
Earliest possible date
07 April 1941
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Two letters on paper
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2 pages
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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 the Meteorological Office and reply, 07 April 1941, RR/67/129, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_129/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-the-meteorological-office-and-reply, accessed on 04 December 2024

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