Doubtless by mischance Versluys misquotes me in saying, “Wright’s argument that capillarity means ‘hairlike’ ...” I wrote: “capillary means ‘hairlike.’”
In my paper there was a suggestion that a clearer distinction be made between the usages of the terms “capillarity” and “capillary flow.” This suggestion, containing the definition alluded to above, was relegated to footnote importance; it was intended to point out the general lack of uniformity in usages of these terms and had no bearing on the reality of the Jamin effect.
Jamin action retards flow. Capillarity causes flow. It appears to me that the two phenomena should be...
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