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THE subject I have chosen is one intimately connected with the names of at least two well-known members of this University—the late Prof. Cumming and Sir William Thomson. It possesses at present peculiar interest for the physicist; for, though a great many general facts and laws connected with it are already experimentally, or otherwise, secured to science—the pioneers have done little more than map the rough outlines of some of the more prominent features of a comparatively new and almost unexplored region. Some of its experimental problems are extremely simple, others seem at present to present all but insuperable difficulties. And it does not appear that any further application of mathematical analysis can be safely, or at least usefully, made until some doubtful points are cleared up experimentally.
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TAIT, P. Thermo-Electricity . Nature 8, 86–88 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008086b0
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