Letter from R S [Robert Simpson] Woodward, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington D.C., to Joseph Larmor, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England He thanks Larmor for a copy of his Wilde Lecture on atomic theory. As Larmor is a recently elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, he consults him about a proposal to designate the kilowatt hour a 'Kelvin'. The Academy would make no recommendation without the approval of British colleagues, but after discussion, the conclusion had been reached that Kelvin was to great a man for so small a unit, and [James] Watt is already associated with it. He asks for Larmor's opinion, recalls Larmor's pleasant visit, and notes his own pendulum experiments to determine g. 23 May 1908