George Biddell Airy to Faraday   8 March 1846

Royal Observatory Greenwich | 1846 March 8

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for the piece of glass which you left for me1. I value it much for its own intrinsic value in reference to your remarkable discovery, but more as a present from you.

I have not yet been able to look at the Quartz. Pity the reasons of a poor man who is printing an Appendix to Commission Evidence for the House of Commons2.

I am my dear Sir | Yours very truly | G.B. Airy

Michael Faraday Esq | &c &c &c

2
Parliamentary Papers, 1846 [700] 16 which was the appendix of the Commission which investigated the merits of broad and narrow gauges for railways. Airy was a Commissioner. See also Airy, W. (1896), 180.

Bibliography

AIRY, Wilfrid (1896): Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, Cambridge.

Please cite as “Faraday1837,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1837