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Jeffreys/F1-F25/F5-F13/F6-F8
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GB 275 Jeffreys/F1-F25/F5-F13/F6-F8
Title
Visit to Australia
Date(s)
- 1959 (Creation)
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paper
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Sir Harold and Lady Jeffreys arrived in Australia in July and stayed through October. Jeffreys went to Australia at the invitation of the Vice-Chancellors of Australia and spent three and a half months visiting the ten universities. Amongst his engagements was a course of lectures in the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sydney on the problems with the internal structure of the earth and planets, the elastic and plastic properties of rocks, probability and scientific inference, and mathematical analysis. Amongst Lady Jeffreys's engagements was a course of lectures at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Sydney on advanced dynamical theory. See F.12.