George Biddell Airy to Faraday   31 October 1849

Royal Observatory Greenwich | 1849 October 31

My dear Sir

Certainly I will give you a lecture as soon as I can find or think of a subject1. Mere skits of information on current changes in astronomical instruments &c which are very proper for the R. Aston. Society would not be proper for you.

But I do hereby promise to rack my brain (when it is not overreached by other things) to find a subject2,-

and am | Yours most truly | G.B. Airy

Michael Faraday Esq | &c &c &c

2
See Athenaeum,23 March 1850, pp.315-7 for an account of Airy’s Friday Evening Discourse of 15 March 1850, “On the present State and Prospects of the Science of Terrestrial Magnetism”.

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