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Reference numberNLB/54/426
Alternative reference numberNLB/54 p243
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS
Date11 May 1917
DescriptionInforms Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar that the Society have received a long paper from Professor L. [Louis] V. [Vessot] King of Motreal on 'The propagation of sound in the free atmosphere and the acoustic efficiency of fog signal machinery: an account of experiments carried out at Father Point, Quebec, September 1913'. Explains that Dr. [Arthur] Schuster thinks it should go to the Lord Rayleigh as a referee and asks Professor Callendar if he concurs.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA5307Callendar; Hugh Longbourne (1863 - 1930); physicist1863 - 1930
NA1774King; Louis Vessot (1886 - 1956)1886 - 1956
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