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- 603 - Correspondence of Sir Joseph Larmor, theoretical physicist and Physical Secretary of the Royal Society
  - 4 - Letters to Joseph Larmor, correspondents G-H

RefNo	MS/603/4/80
Previous numbers	668
Level	Item
Title	Letter from George E [Ellery] Hale, the Inside Inn, San Francisco, California, to [Joseph] Larmor
Creator	Hall; George Ellery (1868-1938); American astronomer and solar physicist
Recipient	Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date	5 August 1915
Description	His last letter observed strict neutrality, under the injunction of the President of the National Academy, but he found it impossible to repress strong feeling. Hale still has to correspond for the Academy on the place of Berlin in the International Association of Academies, however his feelings. He has nothing against German men of science although he thinks some have acted foolishly, as [Louis] Pasteur did in 1870. Hale has been universally on the side of the Allies, thinking that 'the very essence of civilisation is at stake'. He notes the 'Lusitania' sinking and American policy. He mentions the fall of Warsaw, German policy, and the blockade. He contemplates what the United States could do if drawn into the conflict; they could raise a million men, but perhaps England would prefer help through finance and factories. He returns to the Russian army and Warsaw, and to the Balkan States. He would like to talk to Larmor about vortices, since Larmor did not like his bipolar hypothesis, in sunspot groups; bipolar smoke vortices resemble bipolar hydrogen flocculi, he believes. He thinks Larmor's calculations on the electric field of the Sun are valuable, an he discusses the high values of electric fields in sunspots to account for their magnetic properties. He wishes he could show Larmor some of the 'beautiful' spot plates and their features. They are now equipped to examine the Stark effect in the laboratory. He concludes with some general and travel news.
Extent	12p.
Format	Manuscript
PhysicalDescription	Ink on paper
AccessStatus	Open

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Code	PersonName	Dates
NA7364	Hale; George Ellery (1868 - 1938)	1868 - 1938

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