Faraday to Roderick Impey Murchison   7 April 1845

Royal Institution | 7 April 1845

My dear Sir

Such specimens of Native Gold and Native Platina as you can trust me with for my lecture I will take great care of. Will you allow me to send for them on Thursday Morning1 for though the lecture is not till Saturday2 I am anxious to collect the loans to me, before then. For the week following I would ask the loan of fine Malachite and if you have, & can trust me with it, native copper3.

Ever Most Truly | Your Obliged | M. Faraday

R.I. Murchison Esq | &c &c &c

1
That is 10 April 1845.
2
That is 12 April 1845 when Faraday gave his lecture on "Gold - Platina - malleability, ductility" which was the first of his "Course of Eight Lectures on Certain Metals and Metallic Properties". For his notes for this course see RI MS F4 J5. For an account of this lecture see Lond.Med.Gaz., 1845, 1: 47-52. He acknowledged Murchison's loan on pp.48 and 50.
3
His second lecture, on 19 April 1945, on "Copper - colour, conduction" was reported in Lond.Med.Gaz., 1845, 1: 132-7. He acknowledged this loan of Murchison's on p.132.

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