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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

Scientific Literature.

THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF ROWLAND AND FITZGERALD.

We had occasion to note recently the severe losses of mathematical physics in the deaths of those to whom this most fundamental of the sciences is deeply indebted.

Henry A. Rowland.

Stokes in England and. Gibbs in the United States were given time for a full life's work, but Rowland and FitzGterald were prematurely cut down, each at the age of about fifty years. The Johns Hopkins University has recently published the 'Physical Papers' of Rowland, edited