PREFACE
Reading edition
Investigation of the nature and properties of the Ether of Space has long been for me the most fascinating branch of Physics, and I welcome the opportunity of attempting to make generally known the conclusions to which I have so far been led on this great and perhaps inexhaustible subject.
OLIVER LODGE.
University of Birmingham, March, 1909.
TO THE FOUNDERS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL, ESPECIALLY TO THOSE BEARING THE NAMES OF RATHBONE AND OF HOLT THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED