| Description | He has found Larmor's letter on [William Rowan] Hamilton interesting but assumes that Larmor will not take an active interest in a publication. Synge hopes that Larmor will not discourage them from 'trying to do our duty' by Hamilton, and many of his manuscripts would yield fruit if published. He thinks that the Royal Irish Academy would sent out prospectuses to subscribers, with an extra appeal. If the appeal is successful, he wonders if Larmor would lend his name to an Honorary Committee, to include [Albert] Einstein. He hopes that Larmor will not mind a mathematical question, describing a type of ocean bed protuberance or hill, and enquiring what course the stratifications of its deposits would follow. He is not capable of carrying out the analytical work himself, but considers the problem to be one of geological importance. |