Letter from Jocelyn Field Thorpe, on a paper 'Explosion waves and shock waves. VI. The disturbance produced by bursting diaphragms with compressed air' by William Payman and Wilfred Charles Furness Shepherd to the Secretaries of the Royal Society Communicates the paper for potential insertion in Proceedings. Encloses summary of the paper. [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946]. Endorsed on recto as received 21 March 1940. March 1940