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Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The wave form of atmospherics at night' by J S Elder, Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, D B Hodges, W E Phillips and J W Van Wyk

Reference number: RR/67/144

Date: May 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It covers the same ground as a previous paper by Laby and others, but the conclusions are very different. It should be published as it is a comparison of novel views.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].

Endorsed on verso as received 8 May 1940.

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Edward Victor Appleton, Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The wave form of atmospherics at night' by J S Elder, Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, D B Hodges, W E Phillips and J W Van Wyk, May 1940, RR/67/144, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_144/referees-report-by-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-the-wave-form-of-atmospherics-at-night-by-j-s-elder-basil-ferdinand-jamieson-schonland-d-b-hodges-w-e-phillips-and-j-w-van-wyk, accessed on 07 June 2026

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