Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'The wave of translation and the work it does as the carrier wave of sound' by John Scott Russell Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The author rejects the established theory of sound, instead using his own mistaken ideas and comes to erroneous conclusions. Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics [Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1881] 19 July 1881