Royal Institution Aug[u]st 6th 1816
Sir
Mr. Brande is at present on the Continent but left directions with me before his departure for the management of the Journal[.]
The results obtained from the earths Barytes & Strontia independant of electrical powers must be interesting[.] From conversation with Mr. Newman I have presumed that the experiments are in extension of that first made by Sir H. Davy in which Oxygene & Hydrogen were burned from the new blow pipe1[.]
I venture to return thanks on the part of Mr. Brande for any paper2 you may contribute to the Journal & promise that due attention shall be given to it[.]
I am Sir With great respect | Your Humble Servant | M. Faraday
CLARKE, Edward Daniel (1817): “Account of some Experiments made with Newman's Blow-pipe, by inflaming a highly condensed Mixture of the gaseous Constituents of Water”, Quart. J. Sci., 2: 104-23.
DOLAN, Brian P., (1998): "Blowpipes and batteries: Humphry Davy, Edward Daniel Clarke, and experimental chemistry in early nineteenth-century Britain", Ambix 45: 137-162.
NEWMAN, John (1816): “Account of a new Blow-pipe”, Quart. J. Sci., 1: 65-6.
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