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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph Ellison Portlock
Date:
1 December 1851
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 289-92
Summary:
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Thanks for WH's book on electricity, including experiments by Henry Cavendish. Wishes that these had been published by R.S.L. Asks for clarification on experiments by C. A. Coulomb. [JH annotation: 'Not Sent. Met Sir WH at R.S. and transmitted verbally.']
Meeting of Cambridge University Commissioners postponed to 17 Dec.
A note accompanying testimonials for candidates for Sydney University professorships [see GA's 1851-11-18].
May not be able to attend next Sydney Trust meeting [see GA's 1851-12-1], as GA has family commitments.
Reports on a paper by Baden Powell read at the R.S. L. and relating to the wave theory of light and to a paper by Henry Brougham.