Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'Experiments on the directive power of large steel magnets, of bars of magnetized soft iron, and of galvanic coils, in their action on external small magnets. With appendix, containing an investigation of the attraction of a galvanic coil on a small magnetic mass' by George Biddell Airy The experimental part of the paper is recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. There should be modifications of the points of conclusion. Subject: Astronomy [Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1872]. 10 May 1872