| RefNo | RR/6/100 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'New researches upon the dispersion of the optic axes in Harmotome and Wöhlerite, proving these minerals to belong to the clinorhombic [oblique] system' by Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloizeaux |
| Date | nd [1868] |
| Description | Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', if Muller [Hugo Muller?] is also satisfied. Does not feel confident in criticising the originality of the paper fully on account of not being up-to-date with current crystallographic research. Refers to work by Dove [Heinrich Wilhelm Dove?].
Subject: Geology, Crystallography
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society] |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1868.0023 Vol.158 1868 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8259 | Maxwell; James Clerk (1831 - 1879); physicist | 1831 - 1879 |
| NA6012 | Cloizeaux; Alfred Louis Olivier Des (1817 - 1897) | 1817 - 1897 |