George Fisher to Faraday¹   c14 February 1824²

Conduit St.

My dear Sir,

I feel much obliged to you for the Account of your Examination of the Air. With respect to the manner in which ye bottles were filled with the Air I should conceive it to be perfectly unobjectionable; it was briefly thus - The gas sent out in the bottles had been let out above a year before they were filled with the Air & the Stopcocks kept open during that time, & at the time they were filled with the Air they were taken on Deck & placed upon a stand several feet above the Deck, & when they had been there some Hours the Stopcocks were turned, the bottles were then immediately packed & stow’d in oakum by myself, nor was the box ever opened again except in Jones’³ shop at Charing Cross in my own presence <_>

I am dear Sir | Yours sincerely obliged | George Fisher

M. Faraday Esq.

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