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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
3 June 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B21
Summary:
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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JH's letter has appeared in print in Charles Babbage's Bridgewater Treatise. Comments on the books of Babbage and William Whewell. C. R. Darwin has read his paper on Coral Reefs. RM is to be General Secretary of the next B.A.A.S. meeting. [William?] Ayrton was elected F.R.S.
Comments on the shooting death in 1835 of Hintsa, leader of the Xhosa people. JH believes that no wrongdoing occurred.