Faraday to John Forbes Royle   17 January 18381

R Institution | 17, Jany 1837 [sic]

My dear Sir

I am greatly obliged by the present of your book2 and shall read it the first spare moments I can catch. I am the more pleased because it strengthens my hope of having you on some Friday Evening here3 on which matter I will until I see you refer you to Mr Daniell[.] In the mean time allow me to send a ticket for the Season. Though perhaps you have one in consequence of your position at Kings College[.]

Ever Your Obliged Servant | M. Faraday

Prof. Royle | &c &c &c

1
John Forbes Royle (1799-1858, DNB). Surgeon, naturalist and Professor of Materia Medica at King's College London.
2
Royle (1837). Preface dated 1 January 1838.
3
See Lit.Gaz., 9 June 1838, p.361 for a short account of Royle's Friday Evening Discourse of 1 June 1838 "On the vegetation of the Himalaya".

Bibliography

ROYLE, John Forbes (1837): An Essay on the Antiquity of Hindoo Medicine; including an introductory lecture to the course of Materia Medica and Therapeutics delivered at King's College, London.

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