Record

RefNoRR/5/101
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'Further inquiries concerning the laws and operation of electrical force' by William Snow Harris
Date22 December 1864
DescriptionNot recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Apologises for not writing sooner, and hopes the telegram [RR/5/100] reaches the Society on time. Considers the results 'peculiar to the author and I believe without exception erroneous'. Believes that many of the author's results have been previously published.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1864]
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1863.0081 Vol.13 1864
RelatedRecordAP.45.6
RR/5/99
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; physicist1824 - 1907
NA8346Harris; Sir; William Snow (1791 - 1867)1791 - 1867
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