Letter from Geo Fras [George Francis] Fitzgerald, Trin Coll Dub [Trinity College, Dublin], to [Joseph] Larmor He is sending Larmor a letter of [Thomas] Preston's in which he quotes from [Pieter] Zeeman 'as practically the resolution of my paper in Nature'. If Zeeman saw that there were no immediate rates of vibration, then they were all 'very stupid' not to see it at Toronto. Fitzgerald intends to read the paper to see if Zeeman drew attention to this, thinking that he was so dominated by the idea of a disturbed orbit that he had not thought of revolving first and disturbing after. Zeeman had and Fitzgerald regrets not reading his paper more closely. He hopes that Preston will be able to decide the question of the dispersal of lines with different substances and he poses some questions to be addressed. Fitzgerald wonders if he should send a second letter to 'Nature', saying that Zeeman had done all that was required. 23 November 1897