Faraday to Royal Society   19 August 1851

I consider Harris’ paper1 as an important experimental paper and one which should be printed in the Transactions not only because of the character of the author & the right he has to speak as a philosophical authority - but for its own manifest merit. It contains the proofs of what I believe to be facts in magnetism and which as they may not be set aside must be admitted & finally explained in any view of the nature of magnetic force which can hope to keep its place in the future progression of science[.] | M.F.

Royal Institution | 19, Aug 1851.

1
William Snow Harris, “On Induced and other Magnetic Forces”, Proc.Roy.Soc.,1851, 6: 87-92. The manuscript is in RS MS AP 33.15. This paper had been referred on 22 May 1851 (RS MS CMB90c) and postponed on 19 June 1851. Despite this report of Faraday’s, Harris’s paper was again referred on 30 October 1851 since an unfavourable report by Humphrey Lloyd dated 1 October 1851 (RS MS RR 2.90) had also been received. See letter 2489.

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