Rome, Mar. 26.
The Pope has instructed the Archbishop of Westminster, the Rev. Arthur Hinsley, to pay "a substantial subsidy," on his behalf, to the widow and two daughters of Herr Heinrich Hertz, the famous German physicist and discoverer of Hertzian electric waves.
It had been reported to His Holiness that the family, who are not Roman Catholics, were living in poverty in London.
Herr Hertz was intended for th-profession of engineering but de-seried it to study experimental and mathematical physics under Dr. von Helmholtz in Berlin. It was while acting as Professor of Physics in the Carlsruhe Polytechnic that he made his remarkable experiments on electric waves based on Maxwell's theory of electricity and magnetism.—Reuter.
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