| Reference number | RR/8/141 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'On a new method of investigating the magnetic lines of force in magnets, demonstrating the obliquity of the equator and axis of bar magnets' by Richard Charles Shettle |
| Date | 21 December 1878 |
| Description | Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work of the Astronomer Royal, Gerge Biddell Airy, with whose work the current paper can be compared. The author has a mind which think in 'biological' terms. Suggests the author should describe the observational methods. Suggests the author prepare an abstract for the Proceedings.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1879] |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1879.0017 Vol.29 1879 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8259 | Maxwell; James Clerk (1831 - 1879); physicist | 1831 - 1879 |