| RefNo | MS/603/7/53 |
| Previous numbers | 1083 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from C G [Cargill Gilston] Knott, University of Edinburgh, to [Joseph] Larmor |
| Creator | Knott; Cargill Gilston (1856-1922); British physicist and mathematician |
| Recipient | Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist |
| Date | 22 November 1901 |
| Description | He refers to Stokes's Memoir where Larmor gives and address for Professor [Peter Guthrie] Tait, which Knott thinks is wrong. The address is [Alexander] Crum Brown's and he may have been the author of the letter, offering to ask him. He notes his difficulties with compression tables and his communication with the author of them [illegible - Amagal?] who wrote back painfully after a stroke. Miss Andrews has written to say that Larmor contemplates a direct comparison of hydrogen and air with Andrews' apparatus. Tait had some of Andrews' apparatus which is at the Natural Philosophy Department of Edinburgh University and they might get a promising youth to do the work. He understands that [Heike] Kamerlingh Onnes had done all pressure measurements of gases; Knott wrote to him about it, but had no reply. |
| Extent | 4p. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |