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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 December 1859
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4100-3
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Faraday Project
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Mentions William Clift ["Report in regard to the fossil bones found in New Holland", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 10 (1830–1): 394–6].
Discusses relations between fossil and living types.
Discusses Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae]. Criticises Hooker’s views on flora of rising and sinking islands.
Sending the prospectus for the third volume of his Cathedra Petri. Would like his friends to talk about it, and a competent person to review it. Has just had a friendly letter from William Whewell, the only one of his friends now resident at College.