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Letter from Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The propagation of a sound pulse in the presence of a semi-infinite open-ended channel' by W Chester to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/72/58

Date: 20 November 1949

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The revised paper meets most of his corrections.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1950].

Endorsed on recto as received 22 November 1949.

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RR/72/58
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20 November 1949
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Harold Jeffreys

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Harold Jeffreys, Letter from Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The propagation of a sound pulse in the presence of a semi-infinite open-ended channel' by W Chester to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 20 November 1949, RR/72/58, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_58/letter-from-harold-jeffreys-on-a-paper-the-propagation-of-a-sound-pulse-in-the-presence-of-a-semi-infinite-open-ended-channel-by-w-chester-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 16 September 2024

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