Faraday to Edward William Brayley   25 May 1838

R Institution | 25 May 1838

Dear Sir

I have sent the subjects of the evening[s] to Mr Gyde1. Want of time entirely prevents me from sending reports2.

I have not yet received the Herschell Vouchers but have put your name down in my list of names3.

The subjects are

1 June. Professor Royle4 on the vegetation of the Himalaya chain[.]

8 June Mr Faraday On the relation of insulation & conduction in Electrical phenomena or something of that sort5[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

E.W. Brayley Esq | &c &c &c

1
Charles Gyde (d.1858, age 67, The Times, 20 November 1858, p.1, col.a). Manager of Richard Taylor the publisher. Brock and Meadows (1984), 100.
2
Phil.Mag., 1838, 12: 533-6 published the subjects, but most of the article was taken up by a long report of Brayley’s Friday Evening Discourse of 11 May 1838 on ‘The Theory of Volcanoes’.
3
This refers to the dinner held at the Freemason’s Tavern on 15 June 1838 given in honour of Herschel’s return from South Africa. ‘The Herschel Dinner’, Phil.Mag., 1838, 13: 75-7, p.76 noted that Faraday was one of the stewards. See also Athenaeum, 16 June 1838, pp.423-7 and Ruskin, S. (2004), 57-66.
4
John Forbes Royle (1799–1858, ODNB). Surgeon, naturalist and Professor of Materia Medica at King’s College London, 1836–1856.
5
Neither of these were noted in the Philosophical Magazine, but for accounts of Royle’s Discourse see Lit.Gaz., 9 June 1838, p.361 and for Faraday’s, ibid., 16 June 1838, p.378.

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