William Richard Hamilton to Faraday   30 May 1837

Chelsea | May 30 / 37

My dear Sir,

I send you a small box containing some dust or dirt from a chamber called the Wellington Chamber, opened on the 31st of March last by Col. Howard Vyse1, in the Great Pyramid of Egypt. The accompanying Memn from Col. Vyse contains all I know about it. You will find some insects, which may be of interest to the Entomologists2[.]

Yours | W.R. Hamilton

M. Faraday Esq | Roy. Inst.

Richard William Howard Vyse (1784-1853, DNB). Army officer and egyptologist.
See "Royal Institution Laboratory Notebook, 1830-1861", 3 June 1837, RI MS HD 8b, p.95 for Faraday's analysis.

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