On the seventeenth day of December, nineteen hundred and four, Edward Dean
Adams, of New York, established in Columbia University *'The Ernest Kempton
Adams Fund for Physical Research" as a memorial to his son, Ernest Kempton
Adams, who received the degrees of Electrical Engineering in 1897 and Master of
Arts in 1898, and who devoted his life to scientific research. The income of this
fund is, by the terms of the deed of gift, to be devoted to the maintenance of a
research fellowship and to the publication and distribution of the results of scien¬
tific research on the part of the fellow. A generous interpretation of the terms of the
deed on the part of Mr. Adams and of the Trustees of the University has made it
possible to issue these lectures as a publication of the Ernest Kempton Adams Fund.

Publications of the
Ernest Kempton Adams Fund for Physical Research
 

Number One. Fields of Force. ByViLHELM Friman Koren Bjerknes, Professor of Physics
in the University of Stockholm. A course of lectures delivered at Columbia Univer¬
sity, 1905-6.

Hydrodynamic fields. Electromagnetic fields. Analogies between the two. Supplementary lecture on
application of hydrodynamics to meteorology.    160 pp.

Number Two.   The Theory of Electrons and its Application to the Phenomena of Light and

Radiant Heat.   By H. A. Lorentz, Professor of Physics in the University of Leyden.

A course of lectures delivered at Columbia University, 1906-7.   With added notes.

332 pp.   Edition exhausted.    Published in another edition by Teubner.
Number Three.    Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics.   By Max  Planck, Professor of

Theoretical  Physics in the University of Berlin.   A course of lectures delivered at

Columbia University in 1909, translated by A. P. Wills, Professor of Mathematical

Physics in Columbia University.

Introduction:    Reversibility   and  irreversibility.     Thermodynamic   equilibrium in  dilute   solutions.

Atomistic theory of matter.   Equation of state of a monatomic gas.    Radiation, electrodynamic theory.

Statistical theory.   Principle of 1 east work.   Principle of relativity.    130 pp.

Number Four. Graphical Methods. By C. Runge, Professor of Applied Mathematics in the
University of Gottingen. A course of lectures delivered at Columbia University,
1909-10.

Graphical calculation. The graphical representation of functions of one or more independent variables.
The graphical methods of the differential and integral ca'culus.    148 pp.

Number Five. Four Lectures on Mathematics. By J. Hadamard, Member of the Institute,
Professor in the College de France and in the Ecole Polytechnique. A course of lectures
delivered at Columbia University in 1911.

Linear partial differential equations and boundary conditions. Contemporary researches in differen¬
tial and integral equations. Analysis situs. Elementary solutions of partial differential equations
and Green's functions.   53 pp.

Number Six. Researches in Physical Optics, Part I, with especial reference to the radiation
of electrons. By R. W. Wood^ Adams Research Fellow, 1913, Professor of Experimental
Physics in the Johns Hopkins University.   134 pp.   With 10 plates.   Edition exhausted.

Number Seven. Neuere Probleme der theoretischen Physik. By W. Wien, Professor of
Physics in the University of Wiirzburg. A course of six lectures delivered at Columbia
University in 1913.

Introduction: Derivation of the radiation equation. Specific heat theory of Debye. Newer radiation
theory of Planck. Theory of electric conduction in metals, electron theory for metals. The Einstein
fluctuations. _ Theory of Rontgen rays. Method of determining wave length. Photo-electric effect and
emission of light by canal ray particles.   76 pp.

These publications are distributed under the Adams Fund to many libraries
and to a limited number of individuals, but may also be bought at cost from the
Columbia University Press.