[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | Albemarle St. W. | 22 March 1859
My dear Profr. Forbes
I have received your volume1 and thank you very heartily for it. I am afraid I shall never see the Glaciers again so as to connect it with them by reading & observation on the spot: but [it] is wonderful what you and others have made us to know about them since the time of Saussure. What a fine physico-mechanical problem they present and what an added pleasure there is for the intelligent mind which may look at them now with understanding. Great as their beauty & singularity was the comprehension in part of their nature & cause very greatly enhances it[.]
Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday
FORBES, James David (1859): Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers now first collected ... With a prefatory note on the recent progress and present aspect of the theory, Edinburgh.
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