CALENDAR 1917 1011
October
1
Takes
up
duties
as
director of
the KWI. Provenance: Ber-
liner
Tageblatt
46
(20
December
1917), no. 649,
Evening
Edition,
p.
3.
[79 934].
Oct
1-Feb
2,
1918 Offers
a course on
statistical mechanics and
quantum theory
at the
University
of
Berlin,
Thursdays,
2-4
P.M.
Provenance:
Berlin
Verzeichnis
1917b.
October
18
1-page
TLS from
H. Czinner,
editor
of
the
publication
Wis-
senschaftliche Hilfsarbeit, offering
the services
of
his
new
organization
in
assembling bibliographic
material for
research
purposes.
Provenance: IsJHU.
[45 266].
October 26
Einstein
attends
meeting
of
the
Organization
of
the Like-
Minded
(Vereinigung Gleichgesinnter)
at the home
of
Werner Weisbach in Berlin.
November
2
"Review
of
Hermann
von
Helmholtz:
Two
Lectures
on
Goethe"
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
46).
November
8
1-page
ADS:
Negative
evaluation
of
construction
engineer
Mentz’s
"Überlegungen
über den Bau der
Vogelfeder
and
über den
Vogelflug"
submitted
on
March
9
and 25. Prove-
nance: GyBAW,
II-VI, Vol. 121 ("wertlose
Einsendungen"),
p.
87.
[83 984].
Einstein had been
assigned
the evaluation
on
March 22.
November
16
Reviews for the DPG the scientific
papers
of
the late Marian
von
Smoluchowski and reads
a
lecture
on
the
problem
of
boundary
conditions in
general theory
of
relativity.
Provenance: Deutsche
Physikalische Gesellschaft.
Verhand-
lungen 19 (30
December
1917), nos.
23-24,
pp.
289-290.
November
20
1-page
TLC from
Adolf
von
Harnack
to Haber,
Koppel,
Nernst, Planck, Schmidt, Krüss, Siemens,
Rubens,
Warburg,
and Einstein.
Harnack
invites to
a
constituent
meeting
of
the
boards
of
trustees and directors
of
the KWI
on
November
26. Provenance:
GyBP,
I. Abt.,
Rep. 1A,
Nr. 1656.
[77 247].
November 22 Submits "A Derivation
of
Jacobi’s Theorem"
(Vol. 6,
Doc.
47)
to the
physical-mathematical
class
of
the
PAW.
November 26
Joint
meeting
of
the boards
of
trustees and directors
of
the
KWI.
1-page
TTr,
Minutes
of
the constituent
meeting.
Wil-
helm
von
Siemens is elected chairman
of
the board
of
trust-
ees, Einstein,
chairman
of
the board
of
directors. The
competencies
of
the two boards
are
defined
as budgetary
for