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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 Ministry of Supply and reply

Reference number: RR/67/131

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 Ministry of Supply office (dated 11 April 1941), requesting five copies of the paper.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 15 April 1941.

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RR/67/131
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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 Ministry of Supply and reply, 07 April 1941, RR/67/131, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_131/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-ministry-of-supply-and-reply, accessed on 09 December 2024

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