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[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge],

Title

[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge],

Creator

Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940

Date

1899

Identifier

GFF 2/15

Subject

Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879.
Opacity (Optics)
Physical Society (Great Britain)

Description

Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 17 January 1899. Lodge asks Fitzgerald to look at his sheets on opacity of shift convection of Maxwell, which he will be including in his address to the Physical Society. 1p.

Transcription:
"M d Φ
In my prospective address to the Phys Soc I am dealing with opacity of shift convection of Maxwell. Incidentally I have [h?] in your convection under your semi-dense object. Anyhow I enclose the 2 sheets landing on this point, which I will ask you to pass on to [s?] or to amend as seems best to you. I mean the bits scored in blue.
From,
Λ"

Source

RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters

Contributor

Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901. Correspondent

Rights

Copyright RDS Library & Archives. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the RDS Library & Archives.

Relation

RDS Science Archive

Format

Manuscript

Language

English

Type

Text

Coverage

1870-1901

Collection

George Francis Fitzgerald Letters

Citation

Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940, “[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge],,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 11, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/1277.

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