Faraday to Henry Hough Watson   11 April 18391

Royal Institution | 11 April 1839

Dear Sir

I only arrived in town on Tuesday Evening2 or I would sooner have answered yours. Not being on the Council of the R.S. I was not aware of the state of your paper3 but went this morning to make enquiry about it[.] I found that it had been placed in the Archives4 which implies I fear a non-appearance in the Transactions. However I spoke to the Assistant Secretary5 and requested that an official communication might be made to you recommending Dr. Dalton as the Channel of communication. I can of course have nothing to say upon the subject for I wrote you my opinion of the paper before[.]

I am Dear Sir | Yours Very Faithfully | M. Faraday

To | H.H. Watson Esq | &c &c &c

1
Unidentified.
2
That is 9 April 1839.
3
Henry Hough Watson, "On the relative attractions of Sulphuric Acid for Water, under particular circumstances; with suggestions for improving the ordinary process of manufacturing Sulphuric Acid", RS MS AP 21.22. This paper is dated Bolton-le-Moors, 28 May 1838, was communicated to the Royal Society by Dalton and read 21 June 1838. There is an abstract in Proc.Roy.Soc., 1838, 4: 81-2.
4
The Committee of Papers did this on 13 July 1838. RS MS CMB90c, p.170.
5
John David Roberton.

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