Edward William Brayley to Faraday   c May 18361

I am unwilling positively to affirm the accuracy of my report2 in the face of Sir H. Davy's immediate denial3, but I always had, and have still, the strongest impression that accurate it was.

1
Dated on the basis that Faraday was collecting information for Faraday (1836b), especially p.523, at this time.
2
"Royal Society, March 6", Ann.Phil., 1823, 21: 304, where Brayley reported Davy as having said that Wollaston was responsible for the discovery of electro-magnetic rotation.
3
Davy denied that he had said that Wollaston had discovered electro-magnetic rotation (see Faraday (1836b), 523) and had asked Faraday to draw up a correction which was inserted in Ann.Phil., 1823, 21: 391.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1836b): “On the History of the Condensation of the Gases, in reply to Dr. Davy, introduced by some Remarks on that on Electro-magnetic Rotation”, Phil. Mag., 8: 521-9.

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