356 DOCUMENT 311 NOVEMBER 1911 Seien Sie herzlich gegrüsst, auch im Namen meiner Frau und Kinder. Wir alle denken noch öfters mit Freude an Ihrem angenehmen Besuch zurück.[15] ADft (NeUU, Archief W. H. Julius I, 24). [75 073]. Julius has written "An Einstein." at the head of the draft. Drafts to Heike Kamerlingh Onnes of 19 November and to Peter Debye of 21 November 1911 are appended. [1]Einstein declined the Utrecht appointment on 15 November (see Doc. 304) and received word of renewed interest from the ETH on or before 16 November (see Doc. 306). [2]See Doc. 304, note 5 for more on Einstein's scruples. [3]Julius wrote Peter Debye the next day (see appended draft, NeUU, Archief W. H. Julius I, 24). [4]W. H. Keesom. In their reply to the original recommendation for the chair, in which Debye was listed as the second choice, the Curators of the University had already asked for an explanation why Debye had been chosen over Keesom (see Curators of the University to the Mathematics and Natural Science Faculty, 7 November 1911, NeUR, Archief College van Cu- ratoren Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, 637). See also Snelders 1987 for more on the underrepresen- tation of Catholics at Dutch universities. [5]Einstein had mentioned writing a joint letter with Julius to Walter Adams, probably on the problem of the shift toward the red of solar spectral lines (see Doc. 304). [6]Adams 1911a. [7]The theory that Fraunhofer lines are narrow absorption lines asymmetrically surrounded by dark dispersion bands, as put forward in, e.g., Julius 1910a. See also Docs. 280, 284, 288, 289, 295, and 304 for Julius's discussion with Einstein on his theory of optical phenomena in the solar atmosphere. [8]In Einstein 1911h (Vol. 3, Doc. 23) a gravitational redshift is predicted for solar spectral lines. [9]See Julius 1910a. [10]See Julius 1911b. [11]Charles St. John (1857-1935), Henri Deslandres (1853-1948) see St. John 1910, Deslandres 1911. [12]Adams 1911b. [13]The reference is to p. 28 of the separatum version of Adams 1911b the corresponding page in Astrophysical Journal is p. 57. [14]See Julius 1910c for his reply to Adams. [15]On 4 November in Utrecht (see Doc. 302). 311. To Willem Julius Prag. 22. XI. [1911][1] Hoch geehrter Herr Kollege! Herzlichen Dank für Ihren freundlichen und hochinteressanten Brief.[2] Bei unserem hoch verehrten Lorentz habe ich Gras wachsen gehört, das gar nicht vorhanden war.[3] Aber begreiflich war es doch, dass ich mir angsichts so be- deutender einheimischer Talente, wie insbesondere Debije,[4] wie ein Ein- dringling erscheinen musste, und dass ich dies Gefühl hinausproizzierte. Nun bin ich froh, dass mein Weg irgendwie vorgezeichnet ist, so leid es mir thut, nicht in Eure Nähe zu kommen. Ich will aber die persönliche Bekannt-