Humphry Davy to Faraday   1 November 1819

Rome Novr 1,

Dear Mr Faraday

I shld be much obliged to you if you will send this Letter to my Brother.

I will thank you likewise to ask Mr Moore whether he has received the Deed I executed from the Bath of Lucca & whether the money is paid into Drummonds.

I have read Berzelius’ paper which is a wretched composition1. There is as much difference between his estimates & those of Dulong as between his & mine - If he does not make his experiments with more care than he reads the papers he criticises they must owe their coincidence to calculation.-

Pray write to me at Naples.

I am Dear Mr. Faraday | Your sincere friend & wellwisher |

H. Davy


1
Berzelius (1819) which in turn criticised Davy, H. (1818a) for which much of the experimental work had been done by Faraday as Berzelius noted.

Bibliography

BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob (1819): “Note Sur la Composition d'acide phosphorique et de l'acide phosphoreux”, Ann. Chim., 10: 278-85.

DAVY, Humphry (1818a): “New experiments on some of the combinations of phosphorous”, Phil. Trans., 108: 316-37.

Please cite as “Faraday0106,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0106