A history of the Cavendish laboratory 1871-1910. With 3 portraits in collotype and 8 other illustrations (1910)
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ateswere expected to be acquainted with the whole of the widerange of pure and applied mathematics included in theexamination. The range of reading was much wider andthere was much less specialisation under this system thanunder the one which succeeded it, when the more elemen-tary subjects were… … JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON. CAVENDISH PROFESSOR 1884.After the portrait by Arthur Hacker, A R.A. SURVEY OF THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS 77 were allowed to work more independently than is possiblewhere the numbers are large. We were allowed considerablelatitude in the choice of the experiments we made, we…