| Reference number | NLB/64/678 |
| Alternative reference number | NLB/64 p382 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Horace] Lamb [Chairman of the Mathematics Committee] FRS |
| Date | 31 May 1923 |
| Description | Informs Horace Lamb of the following subjects. Written to [Geoffrey Ingram] Taylor to report on Miss [Nina] Hosalis' 'On seisimic waves in a visco-elastic earth'; to send copy of [Sudhansu Kumar] Banerji's 'The Depth of Earthquakes Foci' to [Gilbert Thomas] Walker who communicated it and on [John William] Nicholson's report [George Aldolphus] Schott's 'The Scattering of X and Y rays by Rings of Electrons - The Effects of Damping of the incident Radiation'; James Hopwood Jeans disagrees with Nicholson favourable report and regrets having Schott's past papers being published based on favourable report by Jeans himself, which he feels he was too kind in; asks Lamb to suggest another referee. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Carbon |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | NLB/64/741 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8246 | Lamb; Sir; Horace (1849 - 1934) | 1849 - 1934 |
| NA7775 | Walker; Sir; Gilbert Thomas (1868 - 1958); applied mathematician and meteorologist | 1868 - 1958 |
| NA6602 | Taylor; Sir; Geoffrey Ingram (1886 - 1975) | 1886 - 1975 |
| NA6296 | Nicholson; John William (1881 - 1955) | 1881 - 1955 |
| NA1226 | Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician | 1877 - 1946 |