Faraday to John George Children   18 August 1836

Royal Institution | 18 Aug. 1836

Dear Sir

I have read the paper on sound and Electricity1, which I return with this report. It contains a great number of facts and results relating to crystallization, heat, light, sound, and Electricity, drawn from different authorities old & new; and two or three experiments by the author, which, as far as I know, have not yet been published. But I do not find in it any new or close relation of these facts, or any thing more than the general analogies and similarities already known and admitted. There is no new general law put forth, nor any strict proof of any thing which up to this time has been doubtful[.] On the whole, it is not, in my opinion, a paper for which the Royal Society can award the Royal Medal.

I am Dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

J.G. Children Esq | Sec R.S. | &c &c &c


Endorsed: Report on "Hermes"

1
Louis Charles Sellier (unidentified), "Du son et de l'electricite", RS MS AP 20.15. There is a very short abstract under the pseudonym "Hermes" in Proc.Roy.Soc., 1836, 3: 405.

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