Faraday to Charles Manby   1 June 1842

R Institution | 1 June 1842

My dear Sir

Mr. Geo Buchanan of Edinburgh tells me he has sent up for next Saturday night1 an apparatus for finding cisterns with water by a mercurial valve2 & writes me to see it is in order. If I call on Friday3 will you give me leave to see it?

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

C. Manby Esq | &c &c &c

1
For the Conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 4 June 1842. See ICE MS Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 3 May 1842, p.480.
2
On 28 June 1842 it was announced to the Institution of Civil Engineers that Buchanan's paper, ""Description of a Mercurial Gauge for ascertaining the levels in Water Cisterns;" with a model", Min.Proc.Inst.Civ.Eng.,1842, 2: 196 had been received. The paper (the original of which is in ICE MS OC 557) was not published.
3
That is 3 June 1842.

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