“…First of all we have to mention in this connection two reports by Bethe (1943a, b). Related work is due to Bernier (de Broglie 1948, p. 77), Casimir (1951), Chu and Hansen (1949), Dunning and Fellers (1951) ' Ginzton and Goodwin (1950), Klein (1951), Levin (1948 b), Marcuvitz (1951a), Stevenson (1948), and Teichmann and Wigner (1953. The effective permeability of an array of thin conducting discs was investigated by Estrin (1950) and the problems discussed by Ashour (1950Ashour ( , 1952 have also a bearing on our subject.…”