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

Reference number: RR/67/135

Date: 25 June 1941

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Encloses a letter from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (dated 23 June 1941) which states that they have been sent eight copies of the paper, when they only requested four. Would like to know if the extra four copies have been sent by accident or to cover the distribution in the Dominions.

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

Endorsed on recto as receiveed 16 April 1941.

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RR/67/135
Earliest possible date
25 June 1941
Physical description
Two letters on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Typescript

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Letter from Cambridge University Press, on a paper 'Short period fluctuations in the characteristics of wireless echoes from the ionosphere' by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley and F T Farmer to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 25 June 1941, RR/67/135, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_135/letter-from-cambridge-university-press-on-a-paper-short-period-fluctuations-in-the-characteristics-of-wireless-echoes-from-the-ionosphere-by-thomas-lydwell-eckersley-and-f-t-farmer-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 14 December 2024

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