TO THE REV. E. W. BLORE
Glenlair, Dalbeattie, 15th
Febrnary
1871.
MY DEAR BLORE—Though I feel
much interest in
the proposed Chair of Experimental Physics, I had no
intention of applying, for it when I got your letter, and I have none
now,
unless I come to see that I can do some good by it.
. . . I am
sorry Sir W.
Thomson has declined
to stand. He has had practical experience in teaching
experimental
work, and his experimental corps have turned out very good work. I have
no experience of this kind, and I have seen very little of
the somewhat similar arrangements of a class of real practical
chemistry.
The class of Physical Investigations, which might be
undertaken
with the help of men of Cambridge education, and which would be
creditable
to the University, demand, in general, a considerable amount of dull
labour
which may or may not be attractive to the
pupils.
