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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 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

Reference number: RR/67/136

Date: 26 June 1941

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The extra four copies of the paper are a personal copy for Edward Appleton and the extra three copies are for distribution to the Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Department for Scientific and Industrial Research in New Zealand and Washington.

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

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RR/67/136
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26 June 1941
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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 the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 26 June 1941, RR/67/136, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_136/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-department-of-scientific-and-industrial-research, accessed on 13 December 2024

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