Faraday to William Francis   12 February 1853

R Institution | 12 Feby 1853

My dear Sir

I send you a copy of a report on a Friday evening subject1. As the matter has not been communicated to the Royal Society or elsewhere I have drawn it up more carefully that usual & at some length. I thought perhaps you might like it for the Phil.Mag. but use your own pleasure entirely in respect of it. If you insert it you may either have it as a report or as communicated from myself - or give it any shape you please2[.]

I ought to say that though drawn up only for the use of the Members of the R Institution these reports get out & appear occasionally in the Athenaeum or elsewhere3. I do not know that it will appear any where prior to the 1st of March or even after, but I thought it right to mention the possibility.

Tyndall gave us an excellent discourse last night delivered in an admirable manner4[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Dr. Francis | &c &c &c

1
Faraday (1853a), Friday Evening Discourse of 21 January 1853.
2
This was put in as a report, Phil.Mag.,1853, 5: 218-27.
3
See Athenaeum,19 February 1853, pp.230-1 for an account of Faraday’s Friday Evening Discourse of 21 January 1853 “Observations on the Magnetic Force”. Faraday (1853a).
4
Tyndall (1853), Friday Evening Discourse of 11 February 1853. For accounts of this Discourse see Tyndall, Diary, 11 February 1853, 5: 191-3, Tyndall (1868), 243-4, Eve and Creasey (1945), 39-41.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1853a): “Observations on the Magnetic Force”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 1: 229-38.

TYNDALL, John (1853): “On the influence of Material Aggregation upon the manifestations of Force”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 1: 254-9.

TYNDALL, John (1868): “On Faraday as a Discoverer”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 5: 199-272.

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