Faraday to Thomas Joseph Pettigrew   13 May 1833

R Institution | May 13th 1833

Dear Sir

I will do what I can for you in the Mummy matter but I have five or six extra matters waiting for me which must come first. You must therefore have a little patience1[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

J.T. [sic] Pettigrew Esq | &c &c &c

1
Pettigrew had opened two mummies on 6 April 1833 at Charing Cross Hospital, "Egyptian Mummies", Lit.Gaz., 13 April 1833, p. 234. He said he would subject what was found to a "series of experiments and examinations". For the result of Faraday's investigation see letter 665. Presumably as a result of this examination, Pettigrew and John Davidson on 13 July 1833 unrolled a mummy at the Royal Institution. See Pettigrew (1834), xvii.

Bibliography

PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1834): A History of Egyptian Mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman Priests, London.

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