Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing Second referee's report. He has consulted with George Carey Foster and they have both concurred that the paper should not be printed in Philosophical Transactions. Part of the paper contains information which is already well-known. The experimental results should be published in Proceedings. Subject: Physics [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1883]. 20 June 1882