Julius Plücker to Faraday   10 October 1850

Dear Sir!

Doctor Brandis1 of our University, who particularly applies himself to organic Chemistry is going to visit London, invited by the Prussian Ambassador, Chevalier Bunsen2. He wished for this letter, which would give to him the opportunity to see you.

Since I received your last kind letter3 I continued my experimental researches about the magnetic axes of cristals. I hope allways to reach finally the true & general law of nature, but my researches, presenting new difficulties are not yet finished. I sent a first paper, six weeks ago, to Poggendorff4, and will be able in a few days, I hope, to present to you a copy of it. Then I’ll give to you a short account of the results it contains.

I had preferred by far to publish all my results at once, but I was obliged to go on by the papers of Knoblauch5 & Tyndall6 and by the fact, that two of my papers of a former date and written in french, have by the fault of the Editor, not yet been printed7.

With my best wishes for your health | Yours | very truly | Plücker

Bonn 10th of October | 1850.


Address: Professor Faraday | &c &c | Royal Institution | London

1
Dietrich Brandis (1824-1907, DNB2). Privatdocent at the University of Bonn.
2
Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1791-1860, NDB). Prussian ambassador in London, 1841-1854.
4
Plücker and Beer (1850-1).
5
Karl Hermann Knoblauch (1820-1895, ADB). Professor of Physics at Marburg, 1849-1853.
6
Knoblauch and Tyndall (1850).
7
See Plücker (1852a), 1 where he says that this paper, in two parts and in French, was sent to the Haarlem Society of Sciences, but was not published.

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