Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], Chairman of the Physics Committee and FRS Writes of five papers on which a decision is required: one by Colonel J.W. Gifford, 'Atmospheric pressure and refractive indices', one by [John] S. Owens, 'Suspended impurity in the air', one by [William Bate] Hardy and Ida Doubleday, 'Boundary lubrication - the paraffin series', one by P. E. Shaw and N. Davy, 'The effect of temperatures on gravitative attraction', and one by T. R. Meron and S. Barratt, 'On the spectra of hydrogen'. Explains the situation with each in terms of referees reports and asks what should be done. 13 January 1922