Faraday to Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward1   4 November 1851

Royal Institution, November 4th, 1851.

My dear Sir,

I cannot but regret you should have reason to murmur2, and should be glad to testify to the originality of the thought with you as far as I can, but my memory is not good. However, I have luckily found the notes I used on the evening, which was the 6th April, 18383. At the bottom of the page headed application, you will see the note of application to men and animals, in respect of which I read that the atmosphere, &c. of climates, as of Madeira, &c., might be obtained and adjusted for patients, even in towns. You may make any use of this that you like, only return me the notes.

Ever truly yours | M. Faraday

1
Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791–1868, ODNB). Botanist.
2
See Ward to Faraday, 3 November 1851, letter 2473, volume 4.
3
See Lit.Gaz., 14 April 1838, p.233 for an account of Faraday’s Friday Evening Discourse of 6 April 1838 ‘On Mr. Ward’s Method of preserving Plants in limited Atmospheres’. Faraday’s notes are in RI MS F4 G2 and are as described in this letter.

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