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Referee's report by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, on a paper 'The determination of the depths and extinction coefficients of shallow water by air photography using colour filters' by J Grange Moore

Reference number: RR/69/123

Date: 10 April 1946

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Some parts should be deleted and numerous modifications are required.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1947].

Endorsed on verso as received 1 April 1946.

Letters states that a previous paper of a similar subject was posted in Philosophical Transactions 'B', it and this paper both belong in 'A'. He regrets that it has taken him a month to look over the paper but it is long and he has been busy.

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RR/69/123
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10 April 1946
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Standardised form (type E), note on paper and letter on paper
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William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, Referee's report by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, on a paper 'The determination of the depths and extinction coefficients of shallow water by air photography using colour filters' by J Grange Moore, 10 April 1946, RR/69/123, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_123/referees-report-by-william-ringrose-gelston-atkins-on-a-paper-the-determination-of-the-depths-and-extinction-coefficients-of-shallow-water-by-air-photography-using-colour-filters-by-j-grange-moore, accessed on 30 November 2023

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