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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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Comments on CG's paper on the south magnetic pole, and on British efforts now underway to make magnetic observations.
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.