30 MAY 1931, Page 3

Professor Einstein at Oxford Oxford honoured Professor Einstein with the

degree of D.Sc. last Saturday, when he gave the last of his three Rhodes lectures on his theory of Relativity. It was significant of the courage of lecture-goers that the Pro- fessor had large audiences for his mathematical discourses, delivered in German. To indicate the drift of his argu- ment is frankly beyond our power.. The special corre- spondent of The Times, in Monday's issue, made a brave effort to comprehend what to all but a few advanced mathematicians is incomprehensible. The Professor is seeking a single and simple theory of matter, space and time which to future generations may be as obvious as Newton's principles are to the physicists of our own day.