Original Papers by the late John Hopkinson, DSc, FRS Vol i, Technical Papers

Abstract

THREE years have elapsed since the two volumes of original papers by the late Dr. Hopkinson were published, and an explanation is naturally required for such a protracted interval being allowed to elapse before the work was reviewed in these pages. Shortly after its appearance, the writer became seriously ill, and the diminished vigour that accompanied a long tedious convalescence was marked by increased requests that work should be undertaken, exemplifying apparently the anecdote of the doctor who to obtain rest doubled his fees, but only succeeded thereby in doubling his practice. Hence the performance of a duty had to be postponed again and again, and it was not until Mr. C. S. Whitehead was kind enough to bring his mathematical power to bear on a critical analysis of this collection of papers and furnish the substance of much which follows that this tardy review came to be written.

Original Papers by the late John Hopkinson, D.Sc., F.R.S. Vol i., Technical Papers.

Edited by B. Hopkinson. Pp. lxvi + 294. Vol. ii., Scientific Papers. Pp. vii + 393. (Cambridge: University Press; London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1901.) Price 10s. 6d. net each volume.