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Abstract

THE late Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald was so highly esteemed in the world of science that a movement to establish a memorial of his greatness will certainly meet with ready and liberal support. It is proposed to found a “Fitzgerald Research Scholarship,” to be awarded annually at Trinity College, Dublin; and a large and influential committee of leaders of science at home and abroad has been formed to obtain funds for this purpose. The object is one which would have had the entire approval of Prof. Fitzgerald, whose chief care was the encouragement of experimental research in the laboratories entrusted to his guidance at Trinity College. The scholarship would be attached to the department of experimental physics in the College, and would enable promising students to pursue investigations which, for want of means of immediate support, might otherwise have to be relinquished. Prof. Fitzgerald's marvellous faculties and noble character are so well known and appreciated among scientific men that it is almost unnecessary to urge the claims of the object to their attention. We have confidence that the response to the appeal for funds will be sufficient to provide an adequate endowment for the scholarship it is desired to establish. Subscriptions should be sent to one of the honorary treasurers, Prof. D. J. Cunningham, F.R.S., or Dr. H. H. Dixon, Trinity College, Dublin.