Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Submarine seismic investigations' by Edward Crisp Bullard and T F Gaskell
Reference number: RR/67/41
Date: October 1940

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Sectional committee: Physics
Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The punctuation is dreadful. It contains a 'howler' that often reaches publication and deserves a general warning to Fellows about it. Two sentences 'complete in themselves should not be separated by a mere comma; at least a semicolon or conjunction is neccessary'. He has corrected the mistakes in pencil. One of the sentences should be completely re-written as 'it is nothing like English'. He has altered to word 'plot' to 'graph', as the former is an American word and English words should be used instead.
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].
Endorsed on verso as received 24 October 1940.
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Date: 18th March 1941
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1941.0036
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Referees' reports: volume 67, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1940 Reference number: RR/67
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