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[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Thomas Preston],

Title

[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Thomas Preston],

Creator

Preston, Thomas, 1860-1900

Date

18 May 1899

Publisher

RDS Library & Archives

Identifier

GFF 11/15

Subject

Preston, Thomas, 1860-1900
Spectrum analysis.
Education, Secondary.
Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901

Description

Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald. Preston writes from the Inns of Court Hotel Limited, London [entrances: High Hilborn and Lincoln’s End Fields]. He thanks Fitzgerald for his help and sympathy during their “great trial.” Preston writes that he has been carrying out school inspections on behalf of the Department for the past two weeks and will return the following evening, after which he hopes to have a free week in Dublin. He writes about a recent lecture he gave at the Royal Institution, which he describes as “fairly intelligible.” He met attendees afterwards. He suffered a “very bad gastric attack” recently and fasted for 2-3 days. He writes about the “bismuth spiral,” a chemical element used in his experiments, which is manufactured by Hartmann and Braun, Frankfurt. He writes that he has looked at the Echelon Spectroscope in Hilgers and doubts that it will be useful except in some “particular cases.” The spectroscope has a problem with “overlapping.” 4pp.

Source

RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters

Contributor

Preston, Thomas, 1860-1900.
Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901. Correspondent
RDS Library & Archives

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

Preston, Thomas, 1860-1900, “[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Thomas Preston],,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 11, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/630.

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