| RefNo | MS/603/5/9 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Margaret Lindsay Huggins, 90 Upper Tulse Hill, S W [South West], to Professor [Joseph] Larmor |
| Creator | Huggins; Margaret Lindsay (1848 - 1915); Née; Murray; wife of William Huggins FRS; Irish-English astronomer; spectroscopist |
| Recipient | Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist |
| Date | 3 December 1905 |
| Description | Huggins effusively expresses how much Larmor's friendship and support has meant to William Huggins and herself. They hope he will visit soon. However, William Huggins will soon be 'busier than ever' with the Observatory and laboratory duties. She states that she disliked the conclusion of Sir George [Howard] Darwin's address. She feels that in the subject of astronomy, 'the time is ripe-or nearly so- for some new method of research'. She comments on the 'enormous astronomical and instrumental developments in America', but that these are giving us 'increased detail of the known' instead of 'new master keys to heavenly secrets'. She asks if Larmor has read Newcomb's paper on zodiacal light, which she feels corresponds with Sir William [Huggins]'s Bakerian lecture on the sun and corona, and recommends Cowell's paper. She ends by stating how 'deeply touched' she was by the Royal Society sending her a gift of the replica of the portrait. |
| Extent | 12p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7894 | Larmor; Sir; Joseph (1857 - 1942); physicist | 1857 - 1942 |