| Reference number | RR/7/8 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin on a paper 'On the cause and theoretic value of the resistance of flexure in beams' by William Henry Barlow |
| Date | 8 June 1870 |
| Description | Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The author is 'ignorant' of the terms and principles of mathematical theory of elasticity. It would not be 'proper' to publish the paper either in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings.
Subject: Physics
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1869]. |
| Extent | 8p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Letter on paper |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1869.0076 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/7/9 |
| AP/52/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8289 | Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; physicist | 1824 - 1907 |
| NA7672 | Barlow; William Henry (1812 - 1902) | 1812 - 1902 |