1018 CALENDAR
1918
1-page TLS from Wilhelm
von
Siemens with
1-page
TTrL
on
the
verso
to Mendelssohn & Co. that Freundlich’s
yearly
salary
of
6000 marks has been
granted by
the KWI from
January
1,
1918 until the end
of
1920 and
requests
that the
payments
be drawn from the KWI’s account. Provenance:
GyBP,
I. Abt.,
Rep.
34,
Nr.
8, Mappe
Mendelssohn.
[77
260.2
&
77
260.3].
February 11
2-page
ALS
from
J. H.
Albrecht Preuss in
Carelpass,
Meck-
lenburg.
The
ex-theologian applies
for
a position as
research
assistant at the KWI. Provenance:
GyBP,
I.
Abt.,
Rep.
34,
Nr.
9, Mappe
Preuss.
[77 574].
2-page
TLS from Franz
von
Hoefft in Vienna. The colloidal
chemist seeks assistance for fundamental work in
basing
the
field
of
chemistry on physical
laws and also
suggests
further
analysis
of
the
ether
hypothesis.
Provenance:
GyBP,
I. Abt.,
Rep.
34,
Nr.
4,
Mappe
Hoefft.
[78 087].
February
18
2-page
ALS from Hermann
Fricke,
a
Berlin
patent
official,
requests
assistance
for
publishing
his
theory
of
gravitation.
Provenance:
GyBP,
I. Abt.,
Rep.
34,
Nr.
2, Mappe
Fricke.
[78
031].
The
first
part
of
the
theory,
submitted to
Einstein,
was published as
"Die
allgemeine
Gravitation. Ein
neuer
Weg zur Lösung
des Problems."
Zeitschrift für
Weltwissen 2
(1914):
38-39.
March
3
"Comment
on Schrödinger’s
Note ‘On
a
Solution
of
the
Generally
Covariant Gravitational
Equations’"
(Vol. 7,
Doc.
3).
March 6 "On the Foundations
of
the
Theory
of
General
Relativity"
(Vol. 7,
Doc.
4).
March 7 On
behalf
of the
ailing
Einstein,
Planck submits "Critical
Remarks
on a
Solution
of
the Gravitational
Equations
Pre-
sented
by
De Sitter"
(Vol.
7,
Doc.
5)
to
the
physical-mathe-
matical class
of
the
PAW.
1-page
ADS
presented
to
a
session
of
the
physical-mathe-
matical class
of
the
PAW.
Evaluates
manuscript by
Karl
Hack
on
the kinetic
theory
of
the
periodic
table
of
elements,
submitted
on January
21,
as
follows: "Das
mir
zugesandte
Manuskript von
Karl Hack
(Würzburg)
habe ich nach
kurzer
Prüfung
als
wertloses,
phantastisches
Machwerk
erkannt.
Der
Verfasser hat
von
den Methoden der exakten
Wissenschaften keinen
Begriff."
Provenance:
GyBAW,
II–
VI, Vol. 121
("wertlose Einsendungen"),
p.
112.
[83 992].
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