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Abstract

A MEMORIAL edition of the scientific writings of the late Prof. G. F. FitzGerald, F.R.S., will shortly be published in the Dublin University Press series. The volume has been prepared under the editorial supervision of Dr. J. Larmor, F.R.S., and footnotes in elucidation or correction of the text have been added where necessary. It extends to about 570 octavo pages, together with 64 pages of an introduction, in part biographical and in part historical and explanatory, of Prof. FitzGerald's relation to contemporary science. As much of his stimulating and suggestive thought was published in journals not readily accessible, just as it flowed from his pen, this substantial collection of papers will in the main be fresh to physicists. Being a record of the activity of a mind that was always in the van of progress, it will also be of interest as a reminder of the paths of advance of physical science during the last quarter of a century.