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FEBRUARY
1912
something
like
that
could be
arranged.[2]
We will discuss
everything
else
when
you come
to
see me.
Let
me
know
the
day
&
hour of
your
arrival and the
railway
station
at
which
you
will
arrive,[3]
and
do
stay
at
my
house[4]
so
that
we can
make
good use
of the
time.
With
best
regards,
your
Einstein
P.S.
Abraham's
theory
of
gravitation
is
totally
untenable.[5]
About
this, too,
in
person.
358. To Robert Gnehm
Prague,
12
February
1912
To the
Swiss
School Council
Highly
esteemed
Mr.
Chairman:
I
declare
herewith that
I
accept
the
appointment
to the Fed.
Polytechnical
Institute
in
Zurich.[1]
Respectfully,
A.
Einstein
359.
From Hendrik
A.
Lorentz
Leiden, 13 February
1912
Dear
Colleague,
I believe I told
you
when
you
visited
us
last
year[1]
that
one
of these
days
I
shall
move
to
Haarlem
and
exchange my
post
at
the
university
here
for
a
post
of Extraordi-
nary
Professor.[2] This
plan
has
now
taken
a more
definite
form,
and I
intend
to
carry
it
out
in
the
course
of
this
year, say
in the
fall;[3]
another
physicist
will
then
have
to
take
over
the
Ordinary
Professorship
of Theoretical
Physics.
Our
government
has
already
given
its
consent, and
so
has the
board of
trustees,
upon
whose
request
the
professors
are
appointed at
the
university.
The
faculty,
upon
whose decisions
the board of
trustees
usually
bases its
proposals
in such
matters,
also
agrees
with the
change.
And
now,
may
I approach
you
with the
question,
which I
am
addressing
to
you
in the
name
of the
faculty,
whether
you
would be
willing
to
accept
a
call to
Leiden,
and
whether
you
would
permit
us,
then, to submit
a
proposal to
that
effect
to
the board of
trustees.
The
faculty
is
unanimous
in its
opinion
that
nothing
better and finer
could
happen
to
enhance the
teaching
of
physics
at
our university,
and
we,
the
three
physicists,
Kamerlingh
Onnes,
Kuenen,[4]
and
I,
would
consider
ourselves
fortunate
if
we
could