Second letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake Utah' by Thomas Edward Thorpe Acknowledges receipt of the new from the Committee that the paper will not be published in the Philosophical Transactions, and that a decision on printing in the Proceedings is yet to be made. Does not see how the paper can be abridged. Subject: Physics and Chemistry [Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1880] 3 December 1879