| Reference number | RR/17/450 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by John Henry Poynting on a paper, 'A wave-length comparator for standards of length: An instrument for fine measurement in wave-lengths of light. - With an appendix on the use of wave-length rulings as defining lines on standards of length' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton |
| Date | June 1909 |
| Description | Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry
Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, with no modifications. The paper is 'important and the method marks a distinct advance'.
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1911].
Endorsed on verso as received 30 June 1909. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Standardised form (type A) |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1911.0001 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/17/451 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA6146 | Tutton; Alfred Edwin Howard (1864 - 1938); crystallographer | 1864 - 1938 |
| NA7852 | Poynting; John Henry (1852 - 1914) | 1852 - 1914 |