| Description | He thanks Larmor for the copy of George Fitzgerald's writings. Stoney has been laid up with a sprained knee. Everyone agrees that Larmor has done well in collecting and editing. Fitzgerald's disposition and powers seemd to be an exact blending of his parents, both of whom has remarkable minds. Stoney looked at the fragmentary papers first, including those on educational improvement. Stoney despairs of the newer universities producing the highest type of scientific men, thinking that they are in the hands of experimenters with only commonplace mathematical abilities. His hopes are with older universities such as Cambridge, and perhaps a combination of excellencies, and double training in mathematics and experiment will ensue for the right students. Stoney continues his thoughts on education at length. He notes that he has succeeded with the optical results he showed at the Royal Society soiree, improving the construction of Huygens' hypothesis. He describes what he has done, with a diagram of the width of a slit |