| Description | He has been a long time in knocking his paper into shape and he will send it now. He describes the four parts, the fourth of which draws on a long series of measurements by Dr. [Alexander] Muirhead and has diagrams by [Edward Ernest] Robinson, Lodge's assistant. This part is the contribution to knowledge; the main conclusions are that accuracy of tuning and sleective discrimination is easy in their system and that the Earth connection of the radiator or collector is destructive of tuning. This last will be controverted by [Ambrose] Fleming and the paper should not be refereed by him, but by Admiral [Henry Bradwardine] Jackson. Jackson may wish to see the first part, which Lodge considers of national importance and he is unclear about the expediency of publishing it. Portion 3 was put into printed type some time ago, and formed an appendix to the fourth edition of his book 'Signalling across space without wires'. It is technically published therefore, and the Royal Society cannot accept it as new matter, but it makes the paper complete. The valuable part of the paper is in the introductory remarks and the measurements with diagrams. He notes areas which might be printed in smaller type or abbreviated, but he notes that the paper represents a great amount of work. The Admiralty have nothing like their sensitive tuning, complainng that they cannot tune out Lodge's efforts, in spite of great diferences in wavelength and the smaller power he uses. They can hear what goes on across the North Sea on German ships. The station is on the East coast, near Harwich, close to the Admiralty's. Larmor would be astonished at distance apart of their coils, but he concludes by apologising for writing another paper. |