D O C U M E N T 3 4 J U L Y 1 9 2 5 5 3 32. From Robert A. Millikan [Pasadena,] 25 July 1925 [See documentary edition for English text.] 33. Statement at the Sixth Session of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation [Einstein 1925u] Dated 28 July 1925 Published 20 August 1925 In: League of Nations. International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation. Minutes of the Sixth Session Held at Geneva from Monday, July 27th, to Thursday, July 30th, 1925. Geneva: League of Nations, 1925, p. 10. [See documentary edition for English text.] 34. To Michele Besso Geneva, 28 July 1925 Dear Michele, I had definitely intended to visit you on the occasion of the session of the C[om- mittee] on I[ntellectual] C[ooperation] in Bern,[1] but now it won’t work because my boys are impatiently waiting for me and I definitely must visit Mileva and Grossmann the latter is suffering very much.[2] Then I have to travel directly to Kiel. I would have liked to present to you personally the egg I recently laid now I do so in writing.[3] We independently introduce an affine connection and a tensor ( , and ) and require for an arb[itrary] (independent) variation over the ’s and ’s the variation principle of Γμν) α ( gμv gμvgμv gμv Γμν α
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