Faraday to Charles Manby   22 May 1848

R Institution | 22 May 1848

My dear Sir

Could you send me a reference to the account of Mr. Ransomes1 Stone in Your proceedings?2 If you print off copies as in old times perhaps you could send me a copy[.] Are there any specimens with you that I could have next Friday evening?3 for I have to talk about it for the Dean of Westminster4 who is ill[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

C. Manby Esq | &c &c &c

1
Frederick Ransome (1818-1893, B3). Inventor of an artificial sandstone.
2
Ransome (1848). Faraday commented on this paper in Min.Proc.Inst.Civ.Eng., 1848, 7: 60-1, 64-5.
3
See Athenaeum, 17 June 1848, p.607 for an account of Faraday's Friday Evening Discourse of 26 May 1848 "On two recent Inventions of Artificial Stone".
4
William Buckland, who was to have given the Friday Evening Discourse on the subject of artificial stone.

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