Faraday to William Hill Darker   29 May 18381

R Institution | 29 May 1838

Sir

I was in hopes of receiving the crystals some time ago but am now very anxious for that of Carbonate of Lime as the investigation now wants for the experiments2[.] Can you favour me with that one very soon?

Ever Yours Truly | M. Faraday

Mr Darker

1
William Hill Darker. Later (1844 POD) an optical lapidary and operative chemist of 9 Paradise Street, Lambeth.
2
See Faraday, Diary, 6 August 1838, 3: 4748 and 4759 for Darker providing Faraday with crystals to work on polarisation. These experiments are described in Faraday (1838d), ERE14, 1690-8.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1838d): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Fourteenth Series. Nature of the electric force or forces. Relation of the electric and magnetic forces. Note on electric excitation”, Phil. Trans., 128: 265-82.

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