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An Unabridged Reprinting Of The 1907 Publication, To Include Those Letters Chosen From The Preserved Papers Of G.G. Stokes, Which Numbered In Excess Of Ten Thousand. (Volume One of Two) SECTION I: Personal And Biographical - Notes And Recollections - Early Letters To Lady Stokes - Letters On Science And Religion To A. H. Tabrum - Appreciations By Colleagues: Professor G.D. Liveing - Sir Michael Foster - Sir W. Higgins - Reverend Bishop G.F. Browne - Biographical Table - SECTION II: General Scientific Career - On Talbot's Bands - Prince Of Salm-Horstmar - Royal Society - Michael Faraday - Early Spectroscopic Work - Professor Hoppe-Seyler - Thomas Henry Huxley - Charles Darwin - Meteorological Council - Professor George Quinke - Bashforth Ballistic Committee - British Association - Improvement Of Telescopes - Celestial Spectroscopy - Sir George Biddell Airy - Solar Physics And Actinometry - Theory Of Lubrication - Florescence - Color Vision - Chlorophyll, Etc. - Award Of Copley Medal - The Roentgen Rays - Cambridge Jubilee Celebration - Henri Becquerel - Final Tributes - Memorial In Westminster Abbey - SECTION III: Special Scientific Correspondence - Dr. Romney Robinson - Professor Arthur Cayley - Sir J. Norman Lockyer - Appendix: Jubilee Addresses Of Congratulation - Index To Volume I.

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The memoir of one of the important innovators in fluid dynamics and optics, together with key personal and professional correspondence.

This memoir and scientific correspondence provides a glimpse into the life and work of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, a prominent physicist and mathematician of the 19th century. The collection was selected and arranged by Joseph Larmor, a close friend of Stokes. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

G. G. Stokes and Lord Kelvin helped bring about conceptual and institutional changes that transformed the science of physics. Indeed, they and their Victorian colleagues constituted one of the most significant groups of scientists in the whole history of science. This collection of letters was first published in 1990, and provides, therefore, invaluable insight and information for a period of major historical importance. Stokes and Kelvin corresponded for over fifty years as professors in Cambridge and Glasgow, respectively, thus amassing what is easily the largest extant correspondence between two Victorian physicists. The letters range widely over the people, ideas, and institutions of the age. They illuminate the histories of Cambridge and Glasgow Universities and the Royal Society of London, for example, as well as developments in electromagnetism, hydrodynamics, elasticity, optics, and X-rays. The editor's introduction describes the context of the pair's careers, while guiding the reader into their correspondence.