Royal Institution | 3 Feby 1851
My dear Sir
As far as I have have any power of judgment I find reason to commend Coll Sabines paper1 as a most important contribution to Magnetic science. It resolves a multitude of apparently wild extravagances of action into an important degree of order and develops a new law of periodicity amongst terrestrial effects which can be explained only after it is (as in this paper) made known. I cannot doubt that Terrestrial magnetism is rapidly advancing when such a paper as Sabines comes forth and not only explains but provokes others also to give explanations[.]
Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday
Thos. Bell Esq | &c &c &c
SABINE, Edward (1851a): “On Periodical Laws discoverable in the mean effects of the larger Magnetic Disturbances”, Phil. Trans., 141: 123-39.
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