Faraday to James Nasmyth   5 May 1845

R Institution | 5 May 1845

My dear Sir

Next Saturday1 is my day for a lecture on Iron. May I remind you of your promised kindness2 and express a hope that any specimen of cut or punched Iron or any other illustration of strength & fracture that you can let me have may arrive here at latest by Friday.

Ever Your Obliged | M. Faraday

J. Naysmith Esq

1
That is 10 May 1845 when Faraday gave the fifth lecture on "Iron - strength, magnetism" of his "Course of Eight Lectures on Certain Metals and Metallic Properties". For his notes for this course see RI MS F4 J5. This lecture was reported in Lond.Med.Gaz., 1845, 1: 1363-8.
2
Presumably made when Nasmyth gave his Friday Evening Discourse on 11 April 1845, "On Lunar Volcanic Craters". For an account of this see Athenaeum, 19 April 1845, pp.391-1.

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