Edward Sabine to Faraday   7 June 18551

13 Ashley Place | June 7.

Dear Faraday,

M. Plantamour2 of Geneva who is here for a few days would be much pleased to be present at your lecture tomorrow night3, and I have promised to ask for a ticket for him. I hope to accompany him myself, using for that purpose my General ticket of admission on friday evenings. I enclose two tickets which Mr Barlow was so kind as to send me for Tynda[l]l’s lecture4, (which I was unable to attend) - perhaps the date of these might be altered to Friday the 8th.

Sincerely yours | Edward Sabine.

PS. Mr Walker5 of Oxford comes up to Oxford to hear you on Friday, and will be at my house.

1
Dated of the basis of the references to Faraday’s and Tyndall’s Friday Evening Discourses.
2
Emile Plantamour (1815-1882, DHBS). Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Geneva.
3
Faraday (1855f), Friday Evening Discourse of 8 June 1855.
4
Tyndall (1855a), Friday Evening Discourse of 1 June 1855.
5
Robert Walker (1801-1865, B3). Professor of Experimental Philosophy at the University of Oxford, 1839-1865.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1855f): “On Ruhmkorff’s Induction Apparatus”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 2: 139-42.

TYNDALL, John (1855a): “On the Currents of the Leyden Battery”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 2: 132-5.

Please cite as “Faraday2994,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2994