John William Lubbock to Faraday   17 March 1835

My dear Sir,

I am afraid that Mr Bate wants to persuade you that I suggest his weighing gallon measures &c &c instead of sticking to the point of taking the specific gravity of certain mixtures immediately. It is not so. There is nothing to prevent his ascertaining by his present gravimeter, first the specific gravity of his sample of alcohol and next his preparing certain mixtures by weight of this with distilled water and I would suggest that he might be told that unless this be done in the course of the present week the matter must be put into other hands. We must not let him trifle with us any longer, at least so I think¹.

Yours faithfully | J.W. Lubbock

Eaton Place | 17 March

Endorsed: To M. Faraday Esq | 1835.