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I BEG leave to amend a sentence in my letter which appeared in NATURE of May 28. I wrote that the existence of a most favourable wave-length for transmission to a given distance appeared to be contradicted by the diffraction theory. A more leisurely study of Prof. MacDonald's paper shows me that I have in this respect misinterpreted his integrals, and that it is not impossible that the existence of an optimum wavelength may yet be explained by his analysis. This emendation in no way affects the table of ratios I gave or the wording of the conclusion drawn there from.
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ECCLES, W. Transmission of Electric Waves Round the Bend of the Earth. Nature 93, 351 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093351c0
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