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Letter from Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'The westward drift of the Earth's magnetic field' by Edward Crisp Bullard, Cynthia Freedman, H Gellman and Jo Nixon, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society [D C Martin]

Reference number: RR/73/104

Date: 11 May 1950

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Paper reference code: A80

Stoner writes: 'The general field of terrestrial magnetism is one in which I can claim no expert knowledge whatever, and I do not think that a report from me would be particularly valuable. It occurred to me that the paper might more appropriately be sent to, for example, Professor [Sydney] Chapman or Professor [Thomas George] Cowling.'

Written at the Department of Physics, University of Leeds [England].

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1950].

Endorsed on recto as received 12 May 1950.

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RR/73/104
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11 May 1950
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript
Related authors
Nixon; Jo (fl 1950); physicist
Gellman; H (fl 1950); physicist
Freedman; Cynthia (fl 1950); physicist

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Letter from Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'The westward drift of the Earth's magnetic field' by Edward Crisp Bullard, Cynthia Freedman, H Gellman and Jo Nixon, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society [D C Martin], 11 May 1950, RR/73/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_73_104/letter-from-edmund-clifton-stoner-on-a-paper-the-westward-drift-of-the-earths-magnetic-field-by-edward-crisp-bullard-cynthia-freedman-h-gellman-and-jo-nixon-to-the-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-d-c-martin, accessed on 06 September 2026

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