| Description | 'In response to your request of the 20th instant I have no sent back to you your paper on The Specific Heat of Water, together with its diagrams. I had the authority of the Physics and Chemistry Committee for doing this, and I am to ask you, if you find it necessary to make any material alteration in the paper, either to date the alterations, or , if it should be equally consonant with your wishes, to treat the date of its return here as the date of receiving the paper. Either plan will meet official requirements.' |