9 0 6 C A L E N D A R O F A B S T R A C T S 1 9 2 6 314. From Otto Jaffé Kensington, 12 February 1926 Just back from the meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society regrets that AE was un- able to attend. The president’s address would certainly have pleased AE. He is a layman. As former compatriot, congratulates AE for the gold medal of the Society in his own and his wife’s name. ALS. [44 002]. 315. From Eugen Mittwoch Wiesbaden, 12 February 1926 Refers to meeting with Dr. Goldman a month earlier and the matter of a Rockefeller sti- pend for a third party. Inquires whether an answer was received. Illegible. ALS. [44 457]. 316. From Robert Eisler Paris, 13 February 1926 As a follow-up to Abs. 307, requests that AE write to Nicholas M. Butler, Columbia University, and to Karl Babcock, Carnegie Peace Foundation, to get him a free chair or scholarship in Paris. ALS. [43 617]. 317. From Max von Laue Zehlendorf, 13 February 1926 Submits to the Direktorium of the KWIP two applications by Gerhard Hoffmann, from the Königsberg Institute, for approval of a credit up to 500 M for his work on cosmic rays and ionization. The funds are available. TLS. [40 159]. 318. From William F. Meggers Washington, D.C., 13 February 1926 Reminds AE of his visit with Elsa Einstein to the U.S. Bureau of Standards in April 1921. They discussed work on spectroscopy, and solar redshift. His and Burns’s first pa- per on solar spectrum standards appeared in the Publications of the Allegheny Observa- tory 6 (1925), no. 7, which they sent AE in December. The solar wave lengths behaved in such an unaccountable manner that they were forced to suspend judgment on the grav- itational measurements of Fraunhofer lines. Remembers AE saying that he was not in- terested in the aerial photographs on the wall of the laboratory because they were militaristic. Asks AE to send an autographed portrait of himself, because he intends to replace those photographs with portraits of famous scientists. TLS. [44 424]. 319. From Kurt Blumenfeld Berlin, 14 February 1926 A rally of the Keren Hayesod Board will take place in Berlin on 4 March. The organi- zation has experienced attacks against the Palestine work. The Centralverein has pub- lished a confidential circular letter containing many untrue statements. The Keren Hayesod Board is issuing a statement. Both are enclosed, as is a letter by Oscar Wasser- mann. The fight between Zionism and anti-Zionism will be left to the Zionist Organisa- tion. At the rally, Oscar Wassermann, Leo Baeck, Ismar Elbogen, Alfred Lisser- Hamburg, and Gotthold Weil will make brief statements as well. Requests that AE re- serve the evening for this event. TLS. [43 297]. 320. From Robert Eisler Paris, 15 February 1926 Thanks AE for his comforting letter (nonextant) and sends the requested details regard- ing the events in Udine that have caused himself so much trouble. Recounts in detail how he had removed a medieval book from the library in Udine only for the purpose of sending it to Vienna to be photographed, of having subsequently been arrested and con- victed of theft, and having then had the sentence commuted for ten years. The verdict was annulled in 1919. Reiterates that his work at the League of Nations in Paris will be discontinued. Hopes that a chair will be endowed with some $1,500–2,000 from the Car- negie Foundation at the École des Hautes Études Internationales, recently created by Ju- lien Luchaire. The Bavarian authorities have confiscated his house in Feldafing. ALS. [43 618].