George Biddell Airy to Faraday   13 March 1860

1860 March 13

My dear Sir

I am much obliged by your answer to my query touching Magnetized Bars1, which seems to bear in a very important degree on the possible explanation of the idiosyncrasies of dipping needles.

I had not the good fortune to hear you concerning lighthouses2; if other things had permitted, my tie to the Astronomical Society (where I had to make a statement about the Eclipse3) would have prevented it. But I want to hear you through the press, as Admiral Hamilton tells me that my assistance may be wanted by the Lighthouse Commission4. Will you let me beg an early copy of the printed Resumé.

I am, my dear Sir, | Very truly yours | G.B. Airy

Professor Faraday

2
Faraday (1860a), Friday Evening Discourse of 9 March 1860.
3
See Month.Not.Roy.Ast.Soc.,1860, 20: 181-9 for Airy’s statement about the total eclipse of the sun on 18 July 1860 visible from North East Spain.
4
See Airy, W. (1896), 240-1.

Bibliography

AIRY, Wilfrid (1896): Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, Cambridge.

FARADAY, Michael (1860a): “On Lighthouse Illumination - the Electric Light”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 3: 220-3.

Please cite as “Faraday3745,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3745