992 CALENDAR 1914
3-page
TDS
signed by
Beckmann,
Warburg,
Einstein,
Nernst, Fischer, Planck,
and Rubens. Nomination
of
Fritz
Haber
for
membership
in
physical-mathematical
class
of
the
PAW.
Provenance:
GyBAW, II-III,
Vol.
36, pp.
133-134.
[82 002].
July
18
"Remarks
on P.
Harzer’s
Paper:
‘On the
Dragging
of
Light
in
Glass and
on
Aberration’"
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
4).
July
20
1-page partial
ADft
signed by
Wilhelm
Waldeyer,
but
drafted in full
by
Max
Planck,
appended
to
2-page type-
script
of
excerpt
of
Minutes
of
a meeting on July
9
of
the
Secretariat
of
the
PAW.
Language
in the decree
of
Novem-
ber
22
of
the
previous
year is
amended to
ensure
that
Ein-
stein continue to receive his
personal salary
should he later
give up
his
directorship
of
the KWI. In the event that he
later receives
a salary
in
the civil
service, however,
the
agreement
becomes void. Provenance:
GyBAW,
II-III, Vol.
36,
p.
105.
[81
992, 81 991].
July
21
4-page
ADS
of
Heinrich
Rubens,
signed by
Rubens,
Ein-
stein,
Warburg,
Hellmann, Planck,
and Nernst. Nomination
of
K. F.
Braun
for
membership
in the
PAW.
Provenance:
GyBAW,
II-III, Vol. 135,
pp.
231-232.
[79 183].
July
24
Delivers lecture to the DPG
on
the
thermodynamical
deriva-
tion
of
Planck’s formula
of
radiation and
on
Nernst’s heat
theorem from the theoretical
point
of
view. Provenance:
Deutsche
Physikalische Gesellschaft.
Verhandlungen
16
(30
May
1914), no. 15, p.
735. Published
as
"Contributions
to
Quantum Theory"
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
5).
July
29 Einstein-Maric leaves Berlin
for
Zurich with her children
and
accompanied by
Michele Besso after
agreement
to
a
separation-instead
of
a
divorce-is
reached.
July
31
Prussian Minister
of
Finance does not raise
objections
to the
foundation
of
a
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of
Physics
but
can-
not
contribute
to the
budget.
Provenance:
GyBSa, Rep.
76
Vc, Sekt.
2,
Tit.
23,
Litt.
A., Nr. 116,
pp.
25-27.
[81
916].
August
1
Germany
declares
war on
Russia.
August
12
The establishment
of
the KWI is
postponed indefinitely
by
the
war.
August 18 Completes
"Response
to Paul Harzer’s
Reply" (Vol. 6,
Doc.
6).