Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- ADDENDA AND COEEIGENDA
- Contents
- Section I PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. By Mrs LAURENCE HUMPHRY
- Notes and Recollections
- Early letters to LADY STOKES
- Letters on Science and Religion to A. H. TABRUM
- Appreciations by Colleagues
- Biographical Table
- Section II GENERAL SCIENTIFIC CAREER
- Section IIIA SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC COREESPONDENCE
- Appendix: JUBILEE ADDRESSES OF CONGRATULATION
- Index to Vol. I
- Plate section
Section IIIA - SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC COREESPONDENCE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- ADDENDA AND COEEIGENDA
- Contents
- Section I PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. By Mrs LAURENCE HUMPHRY
- Notes and Recollections
- Early letters to LADY STOKES
- Letters on Science and Religion to A. H. TABRUM
- Appreciations by Colleagues
- Biographical Table
- Section II GENERAL SCIENTIFIC CAREER
- Section IIIA SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC COREESPONDENCE
- Appendix: JUBILEE ADDRESSES OF CONGRATULATION
- Index to Vol. I
- Plate section
Summary
LETTERS TO DR ROMNEY ROBINSON, 1875–1879 AND 1880–1881.
The first group of the following letters have been selected from a series belonging to the period 1875-9, carefully arranged in years evidently by Dr Robinson himself. The remaining part is printed from duplicate typewritten copies preserved among Prof. Stokes’ manuscripts.
A long correspondence on anemometers of the year 1877 is omitted: reference may be made to Dr Robinson's memoir, Phil. Trans. 1878, also to Math, and Phys. Papers, Vol. v. pp. 73–99.
Cambridge, 4th Jan. 1875.
…I heard to-day from Mrs Harcourt. The instrument she referred to is a finely graduated circle, with telescopes for measuring refractive indices, which she gave to me for my life time, leaving the ultimate destination yet to be settled. I was not aware this had been sent to you, and I am not sure that it was. When I was at Nuneham shortly after Mr Harcourt's death, she expressed a wish to give us each some instrument of his. She may have mentioned the refractometer as for you (I cannot now recollect), and I may have suggested that you had an equivalent instrument already, and that it might be very valuable to me as I did not possess one. If she had thought of giving it to you she may have recollected the intention and supposed it had been actually sent. I could not suppose that she meant to offer to me an instrument she had already given to you.
I am not sure whether I mentioned that the Chances have made an experiment on a silico-titanic glass. Hopkinson, Senior Wrangler in 1871, who is their scientific adviser, had the superintendence of it. He sent me a specimen of the glass.
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- Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart.Selected and Arranged by Joseph Larmor, pp. 324 - 432Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1907