The Radiometer and its Lessons

Abstract

HAVING been prevented from attending the recent meeting of the British Association by the necessity of devoting my entire vacation to mental and bodily renovation after the sad family losses I had sustained, I have only become aware within the last few days that my article in the April number of the Nineteenth Century, entitled “The Radiometer and its Lessons,” had been there spoken of by Prof. G. Carey Foster, in his address as President of Section A, as showing an “unmistakable tendency, either intentionally or unintentionally, to depreciate Mr. Crookes's merits, and to make it appear that he had put a wrong interpretation upon his own results,” which statement is said by your reporter to have “elicited great applause.”