Marshall Hall to Faraday   30 November 18461

Dear Dr Faraday

Accept my best thanks for your kind note. We will expect you between 1/2 after 6 & 1/2 after 7 on Thursday 2. Can I send my carriage for you?

My principal object will be to show the experiments which have been poorly explained to you; and - the phenomena of the induced condition of the nerves after the influence of the galvanic apparatus has been removed. Both these series of phenomena are, I think, remarked by Signor Matteucci3.

I wish afterwards to present my researches into the induced states, of the spinal marrow & of the incident nerves4.

I am Dear Dr Faraday | Yours most truly | and obliged | Marshall Hall

14 Manchester Square | Nov 30 / 46

1
Marshall Hall (1790-1857, DSB). Physiologist.
2
That is 3 December 1846.
3
Matteucci (1844).
4
See Hall, M. (1848) for an account of this work.

Bibliography

HALL, Marshall (1848): “Researches into the Effects of certain Physical and Chemical Agents on the Nervous System”, Edinb. New Phil. J., 45: 252-67, 46: 27-40.

MATTEUCCI, Carlo (1844): Traité des Phénomènes Electro-Physiologiques des Animaux, Paris.

Please cite as “Faraday1933,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1933