Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'Experiments on the directive power of large steel magnets, of bars of magnetized soft iron, and of galvanic coils, in their action on external small magnets. With appendix, containing an investigation of the attraction of a galvanic coil on a small magnetic mass' by George Biddell Airy

James Clerk Maxwell, Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'Experiments on the directive power of large steel magnets, of bars of magnetized soft iron, and of galvanic coils, in their action on external small magnets. With appendix, containing an investigation of the attraction of a galvanic coil on a small magnetic mass' by George Biddell Airy, 17 May 1872, RR/7/152, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_152/referees-report-by-james-clerk-maxwell-on-a-paper-experiments-on-the-directive-power-of-large-steel-magnets-of-bars-of-magnetized-soft-iron-and-of-galvanic-coils-in-their-action-on-external-small-magnets-with-appendix-containing-an-investigation-of-the-attraction-of-a-galvanic-coil-on-a-small-magnetic-mass-by-george-biddell-airy, accessed on 19 April 2026

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