| Description | He has been intending to write for some time in answer to Larmor's letter on relativity, mathematics and other things. The news in the New York Times has prompted him and he congratulates Larmor on the honour. Their only regret is that there is no Lady Larmor to share the honour. Relativity has now gone beyond Bumstead, since the pure mathematicians have taken hold of it. He asks if Larmor would pay them a visit if he intends to go to the Winnipeg meeting, which Bumstead will be uanable to attend. Among the things to keep him is a new laboratory for the university, which may begin soon. He hopes to see Cambridge friends before or after Winnipeg, as they travel through, and there is no-one they would like to see more than Larmor. If their house is full, he could put Larmor up at his club. Nichols has taken the Presidency of Dartmouth College. Bumstead is sorry to lose him from the ranks of American physicists, but he would be well suited to the role. He has not had the opportunity to do much work this year: 'delicate negotiations with two millionaires' for the laboratory took up his time. He has spent time during the past month in the laboratory, trying to find out whether electrons coming out of the two sides of his metal film under the influence of ultra-violet light show any diference in speed, as Bragg has demonstrated with y- and x-rays. |