| RefNo | RR/8/190 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to James Clerk Maxwell, regarding a paper 'On certain dimensional properties of matter in the gaseous state. - Part I. Experimental researches on thermal transpiration of gases through porous plates and on the laws of transpiration and impulsion, including an experimental proof that gas is not a continuous plenum. - Part II. On an extension of the dynamical theory of gas, which includes the stresses, tangential and normal, caused by a varying condition of gas, and affords an explanation of the phenomena of transpiration and impulsion' by Osborne Reynolds |
| Date | 3 June 1879 |
| Description | The Committee has agreed to publication of the first part, with no decision yet on the mathematical second part, which will require alterations. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin [RR/8/189] is willing for his report to be seen by James Clerk Maxwell, who is willing to let his be seen in turn [RR/8/188]. Suggests they communicate and agree to a set of recommendations for the author.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin notes on 6 June 1879 - The author will see no offense is meat by his remarks in the report. Suggests he refer more explicity to Schmidt [?], Rudolf Clausius, James Clerk Maxwell, Peter Guthrie Tait, James Dewar and George Johnstone Stoney.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1879] |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1879.0078 Vol.170 1879 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |
| NA8259 | Maxwell; James Clerk (1831 - 1879); physicist | 1831 - 1879 |
| NA6993 | Reynolds; Osborne (1842 - 1912) | 1842 - 1912 |