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Referee's report by Edward Crisp Bullard, on a paper 'A note on the errors involved in the calculation of elevation of the geoid' by Alan Hugh Cook

Reference number: RR/75/58

Date: 06 March 1951

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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A52

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Bullard suggests the author should add a sentence explaining 'why the distant parts of the earth are more important here than in the [calculation] of the deflections in his former paper'.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1951].

Date received not given.

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RR/75/58
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06 March 1951
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Edward Crisp Bullard, Referee's report by Edward Crisp Bullard, on a paper 'A note on the errors involved in the calculation of elevation of the geoid' by Alan Hugh Cook, 06 March 1951, RR/75/58, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_75_58/referees-report-by-edward-crisp-bullard-on-a-paper-a-note-on-the-errors-involved-in-the-calculation-of-elevation-of-the-geoid-by-alan-hugh-cook, accessed on 12 May 2026

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