| RefNo | MS/603/7/81 |
| Previous numbers | 1111 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Horace Lamb, 6 Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, Manchester, to [Joseph] Larmor |
| Creator | Lamb; Sir Horace (1849-1934); British mathematician |
| Recipient | Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist |
| Date | 25 April 1898 |
| Description | He gives thanks, saying that he is sending in his papers having attended to one question in the 'kinematics', making it easier. He discusses question 1 in the 'hydrostatics' and states that 'age brings with it increased incapacity for seeing the simplest of things'. He has altered question 4 and is disposed to put this in a simpler form, and queries the meaning of question 6. The two papers are admirable as an ideal to teach up to, and may be harder than they look. He will not suggest any amendment which will disfigure the papers. He sends them in case Larmor wishes to send them along with the hydrostatics. With the regard to the Royal Society, he thinks that you end 'doubting your own honesty'. Some men woudl have the bad luck to be pitted against someone distinctly better' and he has been told that [John Henry?] Tanner's is such a case. With regard to HWT [?] if he is left out this time, he will find it difficult next. He returns to the Greenwich papers and whether he will receive proofs. |
| Extent | 7p. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8246 | Lamb; Sir; Horace (1849 - 1934) | 1849 - 1934 |