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I AM truly sorry that the obituary notice published in NATURE two weeks ago should seem to Sir O. Lodge to minimise the work of Prof. Carey Foster and others. I feel sure that nobody can value Prof. Foster's work more than I do, but he had neither the money nor the other opportunities that Prof. Ayrton had in Japan. I admit a little overstrain in the statement that at the time when he created his Japanese laboratory “there were not half a dozen people in Great Britain who had experimented in electricity.” I ought to have said that there were only a few workers in electricity. I had in my mind that before starting for Japan early in June, 1875, I had the curiosity to count the number of electrical papers published before the Royal Society, and now printed in vols. xxii. and xxiii. of the Proceedings. I had no knowledge of meetings after May 13, 1875, as I lived in Glasgow. At the forty-one consecutive meetings from December 11, 1873, to May 13, 1875, there were in all only five papers read having a bearing on electricity. These were two by Dr. Gore, one by Prof. Adams, one by Messrs, de la Rue, Hugo Müller and Spottiswoode, and one by Prof. Balfour Stewart. I was on my way to Japan when my own first published electrical investigation was described at the Royal Society on June 10, 1875.
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PERRY, J. Students' Physical Laboratories. Nature 79, 159 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079159a0
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