Letter from O J [Oliver Joseph] Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to [Joseph] Larmor He thanks Larmor for his interesting letter and congratulates him on receiving the Ponecelet Prize. He is amazed that Larmor gave the money back, which he thinks 'extaordinarily liberal' but a 'doubtful example'. He wonders if Larmor would give away a Nobel Prize, recalling that Rayleigh did, to Cambridge. 'Scientia' is bothering Lodge to write something. He agrees with Larmor about [Henri] Poincaré, his influence on physics was mischievous, encouraging philosophers ato think that nothing was definite. He knew from [Andrew Russell] Forsyth that he was considering 'a howling swell' in Pure Mathermatics, but Lodge felt hostile to his literary books. Watson has been in Birmingham house or flat hunting. In a postscript, Lodge explains that when he said infinitely thin vortices need not advance, he was thinking of rings, not columnar ones. 27 July 1918