Richard Phillips to Faraday   3 May 1823

Saturday

Dear Michael

I spose you noze as I did your birrness at the R.S. Did it well I thinks - Wollaston Children, Babington, Herschell 1- I pray you send me by return of post - the diff[ern]t degrees of heat given out by oil & coal gas - I want it for lecture on Monday - Say also definite quantity of water formed - or anything else good - | farewell | - yours RP -


Address: Mr. Faraday | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street

Postmark: 3 May 1823


1
These are some of those who nominated Faraday to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. See RS MS Cert 7.110. The proposers were as follows: William Hyde Wollaston, John George Children, William Babington (1756-1833, DSB, physician and mineralogist), John Frederick William Herschel, John Lewis Guillemard (1764-1844, Lyons (1940), Secretary of the Royal Institution, 1811-1813 and 1824-1826), Richard Phillips, Charles Babbage, Grant David Yeats (1773-1836, DNB, physician), Thomas Colby, William Prout (1785-1850, DNB, physician and chemist), William Daniel Conybeare, Henry Thomas De La Beche (1796-1855, DSB, geologist), Daniel Moore, John Bostock, Peter Mark Roget, Augustus Bozzi Granville (1783-1872, DNB, physician), Jonathan Frederick Pollock, Richard Horsman Solly (1778-1858, Proc.Roy.Soc., 9: 549-50, amateur man of science), George Pearson (1751-1828, DNB, physician and chemist), Henry Earle (1789-1838, DNB, surgeon), Gilbert Blane (1749-1834, DNB physician), James South, Davies Gilbert, Robert Bingley (d.1847, age 81, GRO, King’s Assay Master at Royal Mint, Craig (1953), 159), Alexander Crichton (1763-1856, DNB, physician), John Ayrton Paris, John Frederick Daniell, Charles Hatchett, James Stodart. The Certificate was read on 1, 8, 15, 29 May, 5, 12, 19 June, 20, 27 November, 11, 18 December and Faraday was elected on 8 January 1824. See letter 215.

Bibliography

CRAIG, John (1953): The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948, Cambridge.

LYONS, H.G. (1940): “John Lewis Guillemard (1764-1844)”, Notes Rec. Roy. Soc. Lond., 3: 95-6.

Please cite as “Faraday0195,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0195