RGO Archives/RGO 46 contains:
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29	Letter from Lloyd R. Wylie
30	Letter from Ismael Gajardo
31	Letter from Leon [Herrero]
32	Postcard from [Jan Wop]
33	Planetary Occultations
34	Position Finding Without Instruments
35	Ph.D. Thesis
36	Jupiter without Sats
37	Note on the Vectorial Constants of Orbits
38	Corrected Azimuth and Time
39	Review of 'What I Know About Astronomy'
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Papers of Leslie John Comrie

Title	Position Finding Without Instruments
Reference	RGO 46/34
Covering Dates	1942
Extent and Medium	9 pages

Content and context

An annotated paper, marked 'not for publication', giving methods to be used by a traveller, equipped only with a reasonably accurate watch and the 'Nautical Almanac', to find his position by I) the time taken for the Sun to rise, and II) the interval between sunrise and sunset. The paper is dated at the end 11 October 1942.

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Comrie's methods are commented on by R.L. Whitfield in RGO 46/27.

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