David Brewster to Faraday   4 November 1854

My Dear Dr. Faraday,

I hope you will excuse the trouble I now give you. I have been requested to add the recent discoveries in Electricity to an article which I compiled many years ago for the Encyclopaedia Britannica1, & I would reckon it a particular favour if you could tell me where I can get an account of the most recent discoveries without the labour of consulting the Transactions of Societies and scientific Journals. Delarives Treatise is, I believe not yet finished, the first volume only being published2.

I presume I will find your own discoveries in the Phil. Transactions.

I am, | My Dear Dr. Faraday | Ever most truly yours | D. Brewster

St Leonards Coll. | St. Andrews | Nov 4th 1854

1
Brewster (1842). Brewster (1855b) was the revised version.
2
De La Rive (1853-8), 1.

Bibliography

BREWSTER, David (1842): "Electricity", Encylopedia Britanica, 7th edition, 8: 565-663.

BREWSTER, David (1855b): "Electricity", Encylopedia Britanica, 8th edition, 8: 523-625.

DE LA RIVE, Arthur-August (1853-8): A Treatise on Electricity, in Theory and Practice, 3 volumes, London.

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