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IN a former communication1, an account was given of the hourly records of cosmic-ray intensity which are being made in London by registering threefold coincidences between three trays of Geiger-Müller counters without using any absorbing screen. The full description of the apparatus is given elsewhere, together with a complete account of the analysis of the data corresponding to the first few months of observation.
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DUPERIER, A. Absorption in the Atmosphere and Decay of Cosmic Rays. Nature 153, 529–530 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153529a0
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