Richard Taylor to Faraday   25 March 1839

Red Lion Court | Mar. 25.

My dear Sir,

I am about to give Mr. Quetelet's memoir of Moll1 (our deceased friend) this month2. And it has occurred to me to state in a note respecting his Remarks on Mr. Babbage On the Decline of Science in England3, that the Tract deserves to be read & preserved; & that it is to be had - I don't know where; - for Mr Wacey4 says he has none. Can you tell me in whose hands they are? I think such a Notice w[oul]d cause many to inquire for it5.

Yours Dear Sir, very truly | Richard Taylor


Address: Prof Faraday F.R.S. | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street

1
Quetelet (1839a).
2
That is the April 1839 issue of Phil.Mag.
3
Quetelet (1839a), 296-7. [Moll] (1831) on Babbage (1830).
4
Jonathan Wacey. Bookseller of 4 Old Broad Street. Brown, P.A.H. (1982), 210.
5
In a note to Quetelet (1839a), 296, Taylor said that copies of [Moll] (1831) were available from either Wacey or the Phil.Mag.office.

Bibliography

BABBAGE, Charles (1830): Reflections on the Decline of Science in England and on some of its causes, London.

QUETELET, Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques (1839a): “Memoir of G. Moll”, Phil. Mag., 14: 288-98.

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