Faraday to William Whewell   13 December 1847

Royal Institution | 13 Decr. 1847

My dear Sir

Accept a short paper containing I think very interesting results relating to Diamagnetism1[.]

You cannot think how much I rejoice to find that we shall hear you at our table on the 21 Jany2. It is to me the full proof of the attainment of that I have so earnestly desired namely that the Royal Institution should be dignified in its scientific character both for what it produces and for those who speak within its walls.

Ever My dear Sir | Yours faithfully | M. Faraday

Revd. Dr. Whewell | &c &c &c

Faraday (1847).
See Athenaeum, 29 January 1848, pp.115-6 for an account of Whewell's Friday Evening Discourse of 21 January 1848 "On the Use of Hypothesis in Science".

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