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Memorandum from J D Griffiths Davies, Secretary of the Royal Society and abstract of a paper 'Photochemical laws and visual phenomena' by B H Crawford to Charles Robert Harington

Reference number: RR/67/83

Date: 08 August 1940

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Hill suggest that the paper should be passed since Smith has also deemed it suitable. Publication will be withheld, but a limited number of copies will be printed for government use. Asks if Harington agrees. Has attached a copy of the abstract of the paper.

Harington agrees.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1946].

Endorsed on recto as received 10 August 1940.

Reference number
RR/67/83
Earliest possible date
08 August 1940
Physical description
Memorandum, copy of memorandum and abstract of paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Typescript

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Memorandum from J D Griffiths Davies, Secretary of the Royal Society and abstract of a paper 'Photochemical laws and visual phenomena' by B H Crawford to Charles Robert Harington, 08 August 1940, RR/67/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_83/memorandum-from-j-d-griffiths-davies-secretary-of-the-royal-society-and-abstract-of-a-paper-photochemical-laws-and-visual-phenomena-by-b-h-crawford-to-charles-robert-harington, accessed on 12 October 2024

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