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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, although there is a great deal in the paper that the referee can't follow. Parts of the paper are 'quite unintelligible', but the parts that he could follow are 'sound and suggestive'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1892].

Reference number
RR/11/52
Earliest possible date
24 October 1891
Physical description
Rreport on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Joseph John Thomson

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Joseph John Thomson, Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the forces, stresses, and fluxes of energy in the electromagnetic field' by Oliver Heaviside, 24 October 1891, RR/11/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_52/referees-report-by-joseph-john-thomson-on-a-paper-on-the-forces-stresses-and-fluxes-of-energy-in-the-electromagnetic-field-by-oliver-heaviside, accessed on 19 July 2026

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