TALBOT4320

London
20 Conduit St.

August 11^th 1841

My dear Sir

I have no results to communicate to you but all is progressing except the work I gave to Henley ¹ who it appears is too busy to attend to it.

I have no confidence in any thing stated by M^r De Moleyn who is no other person than the M^r Mullins ² who was blackballed a year or two since at the Royal Society, who did himself no credit in the affair of Daniell’s battery, ³ and who has so many times announced great things which have never been accomplished. He did not bring forward a new galvanic battery at the Plymouth meeting, ⁴ he merely stated that he had made it.

With respect to the agreement, have it put into a form which will meet your wishes by any person in whom you have confidence, and I will then submit it to M^r Richardson.

I have formed a very complete system for telegraphing the indications of the Barometer, Thermometer and Hygrometer from the Captive Balloons to the ground; my proposal has been approved by the British Association and I received last week from Colⁿ Sabine ⁵ a notice that the preparation of the meteorological instruments was left with me as a member of the committee and requesting me to put them in hand immediately. The greatest difficulty I have had to overcome was to render the indications of the instruments independant <sic> of the fluctuations of the battery, I have however succeeded in accomplishing this object perfectly.

Yours very truly

C. Wheatstone