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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Phillipps
Date:
17 June 1839
Source of text:
Bod MS Phillipps-Robinson c.468, f.1
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Faraday Project
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Must have received a long rambling letter written in February; hopes he will ignore it as he was suffering from a fever at the time. Returned on leave of absence for 12 months. Has introduced J. A. Wahlberg to Col. John Bell. P. H. Polemann died in April.
Comments on CG's paper on the south magnetic pole, and on British efforts now underway to make magnetic observations.