John Forbes Royle to Faraday   1 March 18531

Acton 1st March 1853

My Dear Faraday

I was much obliged by your kind note, of which the tenure [sic] is exactly what I expected & is exactly the cause I myself perceive in all elections at Kings College. But having at the same time that I wrote to you addressed others of the several whom I personally knew I was surprised to find that your rule was not observed in all cases. So much so as to make me doubt whether I should become a Candidate2. But as I want to present you with or persuade you to look at the chemical part of my Manual of Materia Medica3 as connected with the subject I will do myself the pleasure of calling one of these days & telling you more particularly to what I allude.

Believe me | Yours Very Truly | J.F. Royle

1
John Forbes Royle (1799-1858, DNB). Surgeon, naturalist and Professor of Materia Medica at King’s College London, 1836-1856.
2
For the Professorship of Physiology at King’s College London. On this see Hearnshaw (1929), 232. The physician and microscopist Lionel Smith Beale (1828-1906, DNB2) was appointed to the chair.
3
Royle (1847).

Bibliography

HEARNSHAW, F.J.C. (1929): The Centenary History of King’s College London 1828-1928, London.

ROYLE, John Forbes (1847): A Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, London.

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