George Biddell Airy to Faraday   24 October 1853

Royal Observatory Greenwich | 1853 October 24

My dear Sir

With many thanks I return your notes on Staiths1 and Clark’s experiments2. I have made no extracts, for your resumé aided by my ocular sight (and giving me some facts of the early experiments which I did not know) has given me a tolerably clear mental view of the whole.

My ideas of galvanism and induction were never of the clearest, and now they are more disturbed than ever.

I am, my dear Sir, | Yours very truly | G.B. Airy

Professor Faraday

1
An error for Samuel Statham (d.1864, age 58, GRO, gutta percha manufacturer) who conducted the experiments. See Faraday, Diary, 4 October 1853, 7: p.393.

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