Letter to George F. FitzGerald from Charles Chree
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Letter to George F. FitzGerald from Charles Chree
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GFF 5/72
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A letter from Charles Chree to Prof. George. F Fitzgerald in which he asks questions about the process of an experiment he is carrying out with magnets. Chree also discusses equipment that he will need in order to carry out further experiments.
pp. 2
Transcription:
Dear Professor Fitzgerald,
I enclose a receipt for your cheque £92.11 .
I am somewhat puzzled by the 'black dust'. We take the magnet into pieces and determines its temperature [xxxx] in a water bath, and if I did not know the care usually exercised I should have suspected that if it had been omitted to properly dry out the magnet. In any case as you have interchanged the lens and scale it should certainly be best that we should have the magnet back to redetermine its moment of inertia. For this of course we should make no charge, supposing you pay postage one way. We should want magnets and appendages, including suspension pieces at end of silk thread and auxiliary bar. But we should not require the glass suspension table.
Please also send the telescope,
Yours faithfully,
Charles Chree
pp. 2
Transcription:
Dear Professor Fitzgerald,
I enclose a receipt for your cheque £92.11 .
I am somewhat puzzled by the 'black dust'. We take the magnet into pieces and determines its temperature [xxxx] in a water bath, and if I did not know the care usually exercised I should have suspected that if it had been omitted to properly dry out the magnet. In any case as you have interchanged the lens and scale it should certainly be best that we should have the magnet back to redetermine its moment of inertia. For this of course we should make no charge, supposing you pay postage one way. We should want magnets and appendages, including suspension pieces at end of silk thread and auxiliary bar. But we should not require the glass suspension table.
Please also send the telescope,
Yours faithfully,
Charles Chree
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RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters
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Copyright RDS Library & Archives. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the RDS Library & Archives.
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RDS Science Archive
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Manuscript
Language
English
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Coverage
1870-1901
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Citation
Chree, Charles, 1860-1928, “Letter to George F. FitzGerald from Charles Chree,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 18, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/1985.