| Description | It is a long time since he has heard anything from Larmor and asks how he is. They are sending their second unit from the Medical School and the chief, Cheever, wished that Lyman had studied medicine instead of physics to be of some use. Many people in the East feel as he does, and he visited the Pacific coast in the summer, and nowhere favours the Germans, except those towns where Germans live. Everyone in the West is 'strong for the Allies'. [Thomas Woodrow] Wilson is not a man of action however, and 'his fatal facility as a turner of phrases has resulted in smothering the whole country in mere words!' He finds it a pleasure that scientific work continues despite the war, in the pages of the Philosophical Transactions and Philosophical Magazine. His laboratory is active, doing fine things with x-rays thanks to Professor [John] Trowbridge's big battery. He gives brief summaries of the scientists' research areas, and his own, including the hydrogen-helium question in relation to series spectra. |