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

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

GFF 11/29

Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 15 March 1898 from the Club House Hotel, County Kilkenny. He writes that he is sending the Astro Physics paper to the College for Fitzgerald to read. Preston read Nicholson’s paper and was unimpressed, describing its contents as what Fitzgerald calls “hugger mugger.” He believes that Nicholson’s paper is “preposterous” because it implies that the effects of his experiment are the same for all wavelengths and substances. Preston describes a diagram on p.136. He speculates that the results have been manufactured by Nicholson’s apparatus while accepting that variations in intensity can occur due to absorption or inherent character. 4pp.

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1870-1901