TALBOT386

12/9/71

My dear M^r Talbot,

Your paper was read, and will be printed in extenso ¹ with the exception of your apologies at the beginning.

I was greatly delighted with the whole proceedings in Section A, ² and we had something like 16 Senior & Second Wranglers or Smith’s Prizemen – Adams, Cayley, Stokes, Sylvester, Maxwell, Challis, Kelland, Hon. J.W. Strutt, Wilson, Hopkinson, Glaisker &c &c &c Colding of Copenhagen & Bierens de Haan were my guests.

I gave them a discourse on Thermoelectric Currents, and a Second provisional Report on Thermal Conductivity.

S^t Claire Deville ³ has kindly undertaken to make wires of Nickel & Cobalt for me.

Yours truly

P.G. Tait