Letter from W T [William Turner] Thiselton-Dyer, The Ferns, Wicombe, Gloucester, to [Joseph] Larmor He gives thanks for the formula contained in Larmor's witty letter. He sees that the flight of the mosquito follows the same law as that of sound and requires Bessel's functions to comprehend it. The compound interest law is 'delightful' and if humans took nutrition from the atmosphere as plants do, 'there would not be standing room on our planet'. He considers [Wilhelm] Pfeffer's book 'pretentious and disappointing'. He describes the difficulties in thinking about osmotic pressure, concluding 'no wonder Pfeffer dropped the whole business'. He thinks they should not have made him a Foreign Member and should have elected [Kliment Arkadievich] Timiriazeff. They should also have [Jean Baptiste Edouard] Bornet. He wonders if they have ever done anything for [Alexander] Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. 4 January 1907