Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the circumstances which determine whether the motion of water shall be direct or sinuous, and of the law of resistance in parallel channels' by Osborne Reynolds Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.It 'records some well contrived experiments on a subject which has long needed investigations'. The results are 'important'. Subject: Physics [Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1883]. 30 March 1883